This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

This paper studies the link between a firm’s education level, export performance and wages of its workers. We argue … find that firms with high export intensities pay higher wages. However, an interaction term between export intensity and … skill intensity has a positive impact on wages and it absorbs the direct effect of the export intensity. That is, we find an …

-level trade flows with firm-specific instrumental variables based on world demand and supply shocks. Both export and offshoring … shocks have a positive effect on wages. Exports increase wages for all occupational categories while offshoring has … elasticity of wages with respect to exports and offshoring is higher than in firms with no collective bargaining. Wage gains …

specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and import flows augmented with the logarithm of the stock of immigrants … distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but …

sectors. We find the differences in the short and long-run wage and employment responses to changes in export to be explained …

labor market outcomes, and (iii) the relationship between firm employment and exports. Our results show that trade policy … level analysis confirms these results by showing that increase in employment from exports has occurred mainly in male, labor …

between firm employment and exports. Our results show that tariffs have fallen and trade, as a share of GDP has increased … that increasing in employment from exports has occurred mainly in male, capital-intensive sectors. Labor-abundant countries …

This paper examines the overall impact of exports while accounting for supply chain linkages on local labor market … indirectly affected by rising export demand. Furthermore, we examine potential impacts on specific worker groups, such as high …