. Estimates based on the conditional logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity … probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of … labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …

negative relationship between labor’s share and lagged productivity growth and inflation. I also evaluate the role of labor …

This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …

The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … productivity increase (1.31%) and a decrease in weekly hours worked (4%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves …

firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms? productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

-wealth ratio, and welfare should be higher in an open economy due to a higher productivity and/or less volatility through risk …

equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In …