Internal and External Restructuring over the Cycle: A Firm-Based Analysis of Gross Flows and Productivity Growth in Portugal

Carlos Carreira () and Paulino Teixeira

No 2007-01, GEMF Working Papers from GEMF, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Abstract: This paper discusses the role played by internal restructuring vis-à-vis external restructuring in industry productivity growth, arguing that the contribution of these two components is expected to be sensitive to the economic cycle. The study describes gross flows (job and output) over a period of one decade, and analyses the productivity differential among continuing, entering and exiting firms in the Portuguese manufacturing sector. The results of the decomposition of industry productivity growth suggest that the share of external restructuring is stronger in recession, while internal restructuring seems to be predominant in expansion. The strong and positive contribution of the cleansing effect, in 1991-1994, was not followed by any passive learning effect of equivalent magnitude in the 1994-1997 sub-period. The active learning effect, measured by the within effect, is, as expected, stronger when output growth is at its peak, but in no case large enough to turn productivity growth procyclical.

Keywords: Cleansing; Active and passive learning; Internal restructuring; External restructuring; Productivity growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L11 L60 O12 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2007-01
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Published in Journal of Productivity Analysis, 29(3), 211-220, 2008

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