. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

entry and exit of firms affect performance and labor productivity. …