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 …

The recent increase in the minimum wage in Romania in early May 2016 represented a popular topic at the national level …

paper examines the causal effects of parents' migration on their children left home in Romania, a country where increasingly … instrumental variable and bivariate probit estimates have been performed. Our initial evidence demonstrates that in Romania home …

extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive … intensive margin is approximated by the average firm exports of a state. Various count-data models, such as the standard …, empirical findings suggest that variable costs reduce average exports. A noteworthy finding is that U.S. foreign direct …

, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export … side, we find (on the basis of the system GMM estimator) a positive effect of exports on industry wage premia. The results …