subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. … evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … - where the firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi while the least productive firms serve the home market only and …

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

Multinational labor demand responds to wage differentials at the extensive margin, when a multinational enterprise (MNE …