This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

and the Generalized Method of Moments estimators to test, respectively, for Total Factor Productivity determinants and … labor productivity convergence driving forces (i.e.capital accumulation and technological catch-up) in different … cross-country heterogeneity of labor productivity convergence tendencies. My results show that technology growth rate is …

We find very fast convergence in productivity for the 99 3-digit European industries over the 1985-1998 period …. According to our estimates half of any productivity gap is closed on average in 10 years. The speed of convergence is much … productivity catch up. Skill intensity fastens structural adjustment but seems to have no effect on convergence in productivity …

the US productivity revival and in the evolving US-EU productivity gap. In Israel, the ICT sector grew very rapidly during … productivity growth remained sluggish, with traditional sectors both in manufacturing and services seemingly unable to benefit from …

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra … effect of the characteristics of firms according to the ownership and governance structure upon the productivity …

This paper analyzes the relationship between R&D expenditures, innovation and productivity growth, taking into account … generation of innovations and the impact of these technological outputs on total factor productivity growth. Our results reflect … omission of this persistence leads to an overestimation of the current impact of innovations on productivity growth. However …