This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …

and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability …