international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that …

strong support for the self-selection hypothesis, according to which firms need higher productivity performance to compensate … productivity levels for exporters. The paper also tests for the reverse causality (learning-by-exporting), but finds no empirical … support for it, not even after controlling for the firm's distance to a constructed international productivity frontier. This …

To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …

This paper presents an analysis of the crucial relationship between innovation, productivity, and export in SMEs. The …. Conscious selfselection on willing to export is revealed by simultaneously endogeneizing productivity and innovation output …

industry productivity and wages over the first ten years of NAFTA, paying particular attention to the source country and … composition, and sources from 1994-2005. There is evidence of a positive effect of FDI on productivity, particularly total factor … productivity (TFP). The effect on wages is negative or zero at best, suggesting a divergence from productivity over this time …

backward productivity spillovers from all three types of international activity. …

grounds of low productivity and economic viability. Sustainability of SMEs is argued to depend on improving labour … productivity (LP) through technological upgradation. In a developing economy this may be a costly proposition due to capital … scarcity. So, the effect of technological changes on productivity levels has to be estimated before taking such policies. This …