Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25721 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Jena Economic Research Papers No. 2008,039
Publisher: 
Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
We apply a reduced-form vector autoregression model to analyze the growth processes of Italian manufacturing firms, 1989-1997. We focus in particular on lead-lag associations describing the coevolution of employment growth, sales growth, growth of profits and labour productivity growth. Employment growth precedes sales growth and growth of profits, and in turn sales growth is also associated with subsequent profits growth. There appears to be little feedback of either sales or profits on employment growth, however. There is no clear association of employment growth with subsequent changes in labour productivity, although at the second lag there is a small negative association. Productivity growth, however, is positively associated with subsequent growth of employment and sales. Quantile autoregressions find asymmetries between growth processes for growing and shrinking firms.
Subjects: 
Firm growth
panel VAR
employment growth
industrial dynamics
productivity growth
JEL: 
L25
L20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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