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 …

-industry restructuring in productivity growth, few studies have gone beyond the framework of the representative firm in examining convergence … or divergence in regional productivity. We use unique longitudinal plant-level data over a long period of time and apply … a useful variant of productivity decomposition methods to study differences in productivity-enhancing restructuring …

This paper examines the relationship between productivity-enhancing restructuring at the micro level and changes in … productivity growth is determined by successive technology steps that are taken in the new plants by seizing new technological …. Identical workers share the same wage level and the wages are increased at the rate of previous aggregate productivity growth …

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. …

innovators from high-productivity firms. These findings suggest that innovation subsidies contribute to economic renewal and the …