Recent research on international productivity comparisons with historical data has encountered large discrepancies … argued that for Hoffmann's (1965) widely accepted time series for German industrial output, there is no such productivity …-German benchmark and the time series projection is considerable. Attempting to reconcile the time series evidence and the productivity …

This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …

international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …