new light on the role of highly qualified employees forsuccess on export markets that is not revealed by the average wage …

developed country. It uses unique new datafrom Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … evidence that firms with fdi are lessproductive than firms that export.... …

's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

theimport as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid largebiases that characterized the … aim atexplaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non-neoclassicallabor market features …

[...]A key observation is that import and export prices roughlytracked each other, with both tracking the behavior of … country’s currency depreciated. For both Thailandand Korea, import and export prices largely followed worldexport prices. For … Thailand, the import and export priceindexes did not seem to have been influenced much by thebaht’s value, while those for …

profit margins and stable export sales when the valueof the yen fluctuates. We find that Japanese firms tend tostrike a … percentdecline in export margins (relative to the margins on goodssold in Japan) when other factors are held constant. Thatis …