evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …

that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities … importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we …