productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key … questions examined are whether exporting improves productivity (learning) and/or whether more productive plants export (self …-sectional correlation between exporting and total factor productivity is accounted for by both selection and learning effects. These results …

. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

Serial entrepreneurs, who open more than one business, are found to have higher sales and higher productivity than …

This paper makes no contribution to an understanding of the secular slowdown in productivity, except to add a new … productivity in isolation. In addition to the phenomenon of short-run "increasing returns to labor" identified in previous studies …, it isolates an often overlooked but consistent tendency for productivity to perform poorly in the last stages of a …

aggregate productivity shocks, taste shocks, and, potentially, shocks to monopoly power. We show how the dispersion of … negative short-run response of employment to productivity shocks; (iii) imply that productivity shocks explain only a small …

behaviors become healthier when the economy weakens, possibly by increasing the non-market time available for lifestyle …