firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect". Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity … relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view … suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign … direct investment ; productivity ; heterogeneous firms ; stochastic dominance …

Betriebsrat, Produktivität, stochastische Dominanz - works councils, productivity, stochastic dominance … productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a … framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. …