, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment …

at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and … Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing a firm's market position given the characteristics of its product supply …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture …