1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

countries for foreign direct investments. Ourmicro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit for …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show thatexporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible …'s exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …

destination countries for foreign direct investments. Our micro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit …

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 …