fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor …-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …

This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of … balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …