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 …

growth is also a central concern to both the practice and theory of business strategy. Despite both its theoretical and … robust theory of firm growth. This paper attempts to address this gap in our empirical knowledge of firm growth using a …

We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in …

increase unemployment, will increase average labor productivity and may improve welfare. The paper then briefly investigates …

total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenous and depends on the resource allocation. The model uncovers a novel tradeoff … productive allocation of resources and so depressed TFP and output. …

Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …

Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … structure and characteristics of this novel database, pointing out a number of results that are relevant to study productivity …

We have constructed a new database aimed at the study of the relation between firm demography and labour productivity … the degree of dispersion and persistence of productivity levels, as well as the contribution of firm demography to … productivity growth. This analysis has been done at different levels of sector aggregation. We have also studied explicitly the …