productive, and experience faster productivity growth. This result lines up well with the evidence from goods markets. …

minimum wages and productivity on firms' exports. It shows that the influence of minimum wages on firms' exporting probability … and foreign sales is negative while that of firms' productivity on their exports is positive. Econometric analysis based … 2007 verifies these predictions. Holding the other variables constant, if minimum wages and their productivity increase by …

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more …-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by …

aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

form the backbone of industrial development in India are not export competitive and contribute only about 34 percent of … nations. India has nearly three million SMEs, which account for almost 50 per cent of industrial output. However, SMEs which … exports. It is this feature of the SMEs that make it an ideal target to realize its potential export competitive. Drawing from …