We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … (and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

We present new evidence on how employment growth varies across firm types (size, productivity, and wage) and over the … hirings from/to employment (poaching) and net hirings from nonemployment. High-productivity firms are the most growing firms …

We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

Increased job effort can raise productivity and income but put workers at increased risk of illness and injury. We … combine Danish data on individuals' health with Danish matched worker-firm data to understand how rising exports affect … individual workers' effort, injury, and illness. We find that when firm exports rise for exogenous reasons: 1. Workers work …