In his seminal paper, starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) nicely … accounts for the stylized fact that the level of individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to … depends on both productivity and net worth, and both are heterogeneous across firms. We show that firms with low productivity …

the so-called "Growth Disease", i.e., the tendency of aggregate productivity growth to slow down in the process of … service sector may raise rather than lower aggregate productivity growth if the service industries produce intermediate rather … raised or lowered aggregate productivity growth in the G7 countries. …

field, we find no evidence that low-productivity workers perform better when they are observed by high-productivity co …-workers. Instead, our results imply that peer effects in our experiment are heterogeneous, with some workers reciprocating a high-productivity …

, improving the availability of working capital is the most promising way to increase agricultural productivity. …

This paper investigates the impact of labour force composition on productivity in EU arable farming. We test for … labour or the shift of family labour to more productive tasks could raise productivity. This finding calls into question a …

comparing the UK's manufacturing labour productivity performance with those of three countries - France, Germany and Sweden … - that possess more stringent employment protection laws. The findings reveal that while productivity growth in the UK was … of a straightforward negative relationship between regulatory stringency and productivity growth. …

presence (measured by turnover) increases the Total Factor Productivity of domestic firms by 0.42 percentage points. Thus, the …