This study explores the relationship between exports and productivity using a panel dataset of Egyptian manufacturing …-exporters because the more productive firms self-select into export markets, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity …. We investigate if exporting firms are more productive than non-exporting firms and, if so, whether the productivity …

agglomeration force. Firm heterogeneity causes a perfect spatial sorting, in which a large country attracts only high productivity …

upgrading in the North, increase aggregate productivity, average wages and therefore total welfare at the cost of increased wage …

than local ones. We take this test to the data by using French firm-level exports of professional services to OECD … services. They reduce both the decision to export and the individual exports. These results tend to prove that domestic …

industry magnifies the productivity advantage of multinationals by restricting backward and forward linkages to groups of firms …

evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains … introduce two novel results. First, aggregate productivity increases due to within-firm productivity improvements. Second …