unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for identifying the impact of exporting on firm productivity and other … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …-by-exporting", the productivity impact of export growth is greater when firms export to more developed countries. …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …

While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …

-in-difference estimation strategy to compare non-nodal districts based upon their distance from the highway system. We find several positive … entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …