financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings … unions are strong and is negative where unions are weak. This notion, encountered in recent research in Britain (and Germany …

This paper establishes a link between the extent of collective bargaining and the degree of productivity dispersion … within an industry. In a unionised oligopoly model we show that for only small differences in productivity levels. a sector …-union can design a collective wage contract that covers a wide range of heterogeneous firms. In sectors with higher productivity …

firms productivity levels within the industry. Less pronounced differences in productivity levels make it easier to design … collective wage contracts that are accepted by a wider range of firms within an industry. Higher dispersion in productivity … likely to decrease. We measure correlations between productivity variation and collective bargaining coverage in various …

-level surveys from Germany (IAB establishment data) and Italy (INAPP-RIL establishment data). Our findings point to significant …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

The contributions of entry and exit of firms to aggregate productivity growth are well-established in the literature …. However, the impact of industry switching of firms on productivity remains overlooked. The purpose of this report is to shed … both positive and negative contributions to aggregate productivity in different periods. Intra-industry switching had …

In this paper, we argue that fundamental reforms of the Swedish business sector can explain the remarkable productivity … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

How can a country improve the productivity growth in its business sector and reach its growth potential? Sweden during …