the interaction between firms and trade union in determining wages and employment. The focus is on analyzing the effects … wages and capital stock, conditional on which the firm decides on production factors of employment, working hours and …This study is concerned with the development of a theoretical model and its empirical application to the estimation of …

entry and exit in enhancing aggregate productivity, both qualitatively and quantitatively. The main findings of this study … existing studies on other countries, plant turnover reflects underlying productivity differentials in Korean manufacturing … account for as much as 45 and 65 per cent in manufacturing productivity growth during cyclical upturn and downturn …

, measured firm productivity will reflect both true differences in productivity and non-random decisions about which products to … to characterize the direction and magnitude of the resulting bias in productivity and to trace the implications for … provides a new source of reallocation and leads to biased measures of deregulation’s impact on firm and aggregate productivity …

The paper examines the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on a domestic firm's productivity in Vietnamese … findings are: FDI generates strong and positive spillover effects on a domestic firm's productivity through both horizontal and … and therefore they will have higher productivity …

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 …

The levels and interactions of foreign connections and size may be important determinants of plant productivity and … industry. We evaluate the implications of FDI for overall productivity, input-specific contributions, and returns to scale … function model. We find significantly higher productivity of plants with foreign ownership, driven by a higher marginal product …

on subsequent firm level productivity. These productivity effects are shown to be larger than those accruing to firms who … enter into ordinary exporting. Interestingly, the estimation of quantile treatment effects shows that the positive effects … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …