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Dr Chiara Criscuolo

Dr Chiara Criscuolo

Associate

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+33 1 4524 7968
Email:
chiara.criscuolo@oecd.org
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CEP Growth

Publications

CEP discussion papers
Industry concentration in Europe and North America

This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and bus... Read more...

Matej Bajgar, Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Timmis

09 October 2019

CEP discussion papers
The best versus the rest: divergence across firms during the global productivity slowdown

We document that labor productivity of the globally most productive firms – the “frontier” – has diverged from all other firms – the “rest” – throughout the 2000s. This divergence remains after controlling for capital in... Read more...

Dan Andrews, Chiara Criscuolo and Peter N. Gal

14 August 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
Firm size, productivity and pay in today's service economy

The evidence that bigger firms pay higher wages and have higher productivity is based mainly on manufacturing, which is only a small share of today's economy. Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo re... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

01 July 2019

Journal article
Some causal effects of an industrial policy

We exploit changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a program to support jobs through investment subsidies. European rules determine whether an area is eligible for subsidies, and we construct instrumental v... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen

01 January 2019

Journal article
A cross-country analysis of start-up employment dynamics

This article carries out a detailed descriptive analysis of employment dynamics of new firms, using comparable and highly representative data for 19 countries. It does so by using a novel analytical decomposition of the ... Read more...

Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo and Carlo Menon

01 August 2018

CEP discussion papers
The productivity-wage premium: does size still matter in a service economy?

Ever since Moore (1911) a large empirical and theoretical literature has established the existence of a firm size-wage premium. At the same time, a second regularity in empirical work, linking size and productivity, has ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

12 July 2018

Journal article
Growth volatility and size: A firm-level study

This paper provides a systematic cross-country investigation of the relation between a firm's growth volatility and its size. For the first time the analysis is carried out using comparable and representative sets of dat... Read more...

Flavio Calvino, Chiara Criscuolo, Carlo Menon and Angelo Secchi

01 April 2018

Journal article
The Productivity-Wage Premium: Does Size Still Matter in a Service Economy?

The literature has established two robust stylized facts: (i) the existence of a firm size-wage premium and (ii) a positive relationship between firm size and productivity. However, the existing evidence is mainly based ... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Sara Calligaris and Chiara Criscuolo

01 March 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
The growing inequality between firms

Some firms pay well while others don’t; and some are highly productive while many aren’t. New research describes an emerging pattern of increasing inequality of wages and productivity between firms in the manufacturing a... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

01 November 2017

CEP discussion papers
The great divergence(s)

This report provides new evidence on the increasing dispersion in wages and productivity using novel micro-aggregated firm-level data from 16 countries. First, the report documents an increase in wage and productivity di... Read more...

Giuseppe Berlingieri, Patrick Blanchenay and Chiara Criscuolo

22 June 2017

CEP discussion papers
The Dynamics of Employment Growth: New Evidence from 18 Countries

Motivated by the on-going interest of policy makers in the sources of job creation, this paper presents results from a new OECD project on the dynamics of employment (DynEmp) based on an innovative methodology using firm... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal and Carlo Menon

06 June 2014

CEP occasional papers
Dynemp: A Stata® Routine for Distributed Micro-data Analysis of Business Dynamics

This paper introduces a new Stata® command, dynemp, which implements a distributed micro-data analysis of business and employment dynamics and firm demographics. The data source it requires are business registers or comp... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Peter N. Gal and Carlo Menon

06 June 2014

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance
In brief: Can industrial policy boost jobs?

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific el... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry Overman and John Van Reenen

21 May 2012

SERC Discussion Papers
The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific el... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen

10 January 2012

CEP discussion papers
Some Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Business support policies designed to raise employment and productivity are ubiquitous around the world. We exploit changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs thro... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman and John Van Reenen

10 January 2012

CEP discussion papers
Service Traders in the UK

We provide a novel set of stylized facts on firms engaging in international trade in services, using unique firm-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trad... Read more...

Holger Breinlich and Chiara Criscuolo

01 December 2008

CEP discussion papers
Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows and Spillovers

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows ofte... Read more...

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo, Jonathan Haskel and Matthew Slaughter

01 April 2007

CEP discussion papers
Information Technology, Organisational Change and Productivity Growth: Evidence from UK Firms

We examine the relationships between productivity growth, IT investment and organisational change (?O) using UK firm data. Consistent with the small number of other micro studies we find (a) IT appears to have high retur... Read more...

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel

01 March 2007

CEP discussion papers
Productivity, Exporting and the Learning-by-Exporting Hypothesis: Direct Evidence from UK Firms

Case study evidence suggests that exporting firms learn from their clients. But econometric evidence, mostly using exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting a... Read more...

Gustavo Crespi, Chiara Criscuolo and Jonathan Haskel

01 May 2006

CEP discussion papers
Multinationals and US Productivity Leadership: Evidence from Great Britain

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs, we find that UK MNEs are less productive than US affiliates, but as productive as non US foreign affi... Read more...

Chiara Criscuolo and Ralf Martin

01 January 2005

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