This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service- producing firms in … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

Western economies. Conversely, we find that exports to China have become more important, both for the EU and the United States …Some observers warn that a high level of economic dependence on China could negatively affect the economic resilience … of Western economies and therefore recommend reducing such dependence by gradually decoupling from China. On the other …

reallocations - induce productivity changes within the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks … and the productivity of multi-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand … shocks on productivity are substantial - and explain an important share of aggregate productivity fluctuations for French …

: aggregate exports are disproportionally driven by few multi-buyers exporters; and each multi-buyer exporter's foreign sales of …

productivity. We show that long-run growth estimates based on filtering U.S. productivity data comove strongly with long …-horizon survey expectations. By simulating the model in which agents filter data on U.S. productivity growth, we closely match the U …