Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …

similar control plants exist. The results indicate that divestment is associated with a drop in total factor productivity … accompanied by a decline in output, markups as well as export and import intensity. The findings are consistent with the benefits …

intertemporal selection effects. -- export ; FDI ; uncertain productivity growth ; real option approach … between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology … and sheds light on the effects of productivity growth. On the basis of a Geometric Brownian motion, three different …

induced by time and local variations in sunset time. We find that a 1-hour increase in weekly sleep increases employment by 1 ….6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …

sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment … position increases private sector employment by one unit, primarily driven by the service sector. Consistent with existing … literature, we document that the effect of public employment on private employment is highly localized. In addition to changes in …

west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …

country's export basket. The empirical analysis relates unit values of exports measured at the 4-digit SITC level to data on … help bridge gaps in production and marketing techniques between developing and high income economies. -- export quality …