While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and average industry productivity increases due to a selection effect. These …

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 …