productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms … productivity. Average wages increase only by 0.5%. Sectoral spillovers between firms that train workers are found, but only in …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …

probability to stop exporting during protection compared to unprotected firms. Finally, we find that the productivity of exporters …

productivity and its decision to exports and/or invest in foreign affiliate, namely the heterogeneity of foreign markets … markets served by individual firm increases with firm's productivity level. We show that firms enter additional export markets … always more productive than firms supplying only domestic market. Also, we confirm a conjecture that higher productivity …

bilateral trade flows. Our tests are based on NACE 2-digit industry aggregation of productivity and of bilateral trade flows … productivity rankings and bilateral sectoral exports-to-imports ratio rankings for each of 21 x 20 country pairs. We find that the … productivity nor by the variation in changes of capital-to-labor ratios. Furthfirmore, we find quite a strong autoregressive impact …

This paper provides new evidence on the link between finance and firm-level productivity focusing on the case of … find that financial constraints do not lower productivity for most sectors with the exception of R&D, where the dampening … effect of financial constraints on productivity is remarkably large. These results are robust to a variety of sensitivity …

firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a … exporting and conesequently from exporting to process innovation and reverse productivity improvements. Using detailed mi …

This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To … endogeneity of input factors and training is applied. The productivity premium for a trained worker is estimated at 23%, while the …

, the link of firm-level employment turnover with firm-level growth in labour productivity. The results suggest that while … the firm level, contributed more to productivity changes than did other firm-level characteristics and industry …-level factors affecting productivity. Finally, we find that the rate of employment changes in Bulgarian firms has a significant …

This paper compares the wage cost and productivity differentials between Belgium and Portugal, being the EU benchmarks …, Hungary and the Czech Republic. To this end we use firm level data to construct measures of labor costs and labor productivity … in labor costs. However, at the same time labor productivity varies substantially between these regions and there is a …