-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between …, significant increases in productivity are explained by the growth of imports weighted by import penetration. The exception are … imports from NAFTA which have a negative impact on productivity. …

The use of trade liberalization to enhance manufacturing productivity has been a commonly applied policy in several … developing countries since the 1980s. This paper proposes a new methodology to estimate the inter-industry productivity …-1998) indicate that inter-industry productivity spillovers exist, are positive, and account for 70% of the increase in productivity …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …