productivity of the domestic economy via the "selection effect". In addition, it has the potential to affect the skewness of the … observed productivity distribution, i.e. the gap between the productivity of the median firm and average productivity. We … protection levels lower average productivity and drive a larger wedge between mean and median productivity. This latter suggests …

By taking firm heterogeneity in productivity into account in a monopolistic competition market in a general …-equilibrium model setting, this paper investigates whether a stricter local content requirements (LCRs) can increase both productivity … level, a stricter LCRs can increase production but decrease productivity; however, production decreases but productivity …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …