Cirera, Xavier; Lederman, Daniel; Máñez, Juan A.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-22, pp. 1-31
This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over …-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields an extra TFP growth that emerges since a firm's first year of exporting but … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …