plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity accompanied by a … decline in output, markups as well as export and import intensity. The findings are consistent with the benefits of foreign …

level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …

adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the …

5% of productivity growth. There is a small negative effect of less than half a percent on employment when industries … paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000, using … significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 11% of productivity growth during this period …

focus on the control of the voting of agricultural workers by landlords and show that if the employment relationship is …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … orientation. A change in the real exchange rate (RER) affects a firm through three different channels: (i) firm's export sales … by increasing productivity. The RER shock was associated with substantial within-firm productivity gains for net …