This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …

productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICTŽs impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the … of the 1960-2004 period to explain the developments. Taxes and gross replacement rates do not correlate with productivity …