new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an …

competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services … sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their marginal costs, allowing the model to predict domestic M&A and exit … by closedown, as well as foreign M&A. The model is brought to detailed French firm-level data on exit and M&A in the …

The decision to exit is examined for a cohort of over 12,000 plants established in 1976. Using a longitudinal data base … more employees during the start -up year are found to have a lower likelihood of exit than do smaller plants. Similarly …, establishnwnts which are independent are found to have a lower likelihood of exit within the following years than do newly created …

, in terms of survival, employment growth, wage growth, and export growth. We suggest that the green industry (as defined … characterized as a unique industry with substantial potential for employment growth, well-paying ‘green jobs,’ and export … differences between EPMs and their non-EPM counterparts in the same industry, in terms of employment, employee compensation …

with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation … instrument for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this … connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in …

implies that previous work linking (revenue-based) productivity to survival has confounded the separate and opposing effects … of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young …