We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions … evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French … the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size and export intensity in explaining …

, France and the United Kingdom. Productivity trends are then studied over a shorter period, using quarterly data, for the … United States, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Japan and the Netherlands. There are already a large number of …The purpose of this article is to study the trends in per capita productivity in several major industrialised countries …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until …The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …

We provide an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asia and Pacific (APAC) countries …, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research Network … in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

Following reunification, productivity in eastern Germany grew rapidly. A strong industrial sector is key to a thriving … German economy. However, the narrowing of the industrial productivity gap between eastern and western Germany has come to a … regions in eastern and western Germany, the productivity gap shrinks. In both eastern German cities as well as rural areas …