Dynamics of productivity and cost of labor in Italian manufacturing firms

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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 relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still retains a positive effect on cost of labor in most of the sectors considered.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LEM Working Paper Series ; No. 2013/02

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
• Thema: Size-wage effect ; Labor productivity

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bottazzi, Giulio ; Grazzi, Marco
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
• (wo): Pisa
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/89480
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ