may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to …

We develop a procedure to estimate production functions, elasticities of demand, and productivity when firms …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of firms, as it allows them to quickly customize the IT they require to … IT investment in any sectors, it does significantly improve labor productivity for firms in manufacturing and in …

that are implicit in previous firm-level productivity estimation approaches. We use Belgian firms production data to …

effects on physical capital, employment and productivity through a production function. On the basis of reforms defined as …