-conflict reconstruction in the former Yugoslavia, using exports as outcome. Using confidential social security data to capture intensity of … elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

Recent literature has raised the attention on the estimation of time-invariant variables both in a static and a … the role of inputs from "Science" (firm-level publications' stock) on firms' labour productivity, showing that the effect …

-market participation having generally larger positive effects on productivity and negative effects on unit labor costs. All four channels … interact, sometimes complementing, sometimes substituting one another. For instance, foreign ownership boosts exports at the …, the marginal productivity gains of foreign-ownership are greatly reduced when the firm is already an exporter. Breaking …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

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 …

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … increase in exports of the female-intensive good, the male-female wage gap closes considerably throughout the country – not …