This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … does not fall as fast as productivity does. A dynamic model of labor quality and quantity choice by plants is estimated to …

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 …

productivity growth - exacerbates macroeconomic disparities in terms of labour productivity. While nominal wages act as a potential …, exports, and labour productivity, have lost prominence in explaining economic dynamics. We argue that, in the absence of … counterbalancing mechanisms, the combination of price-sensitive exports and the triggering effect of exports on productivity can enable …