relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages … highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to grow and pay higher wages. Using multiple establishment-level data sets … barely lost. The analysis finds small impacts on all outcomes that we examine; estimates for wages are close to zero. The …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … from a large internal inconsistency: they rely on an exogenous evolving productivity process. I show how recent proxy … estimators can accommodate endogenous productivity processes such as learning by exporting. I rely on my framework to discuss the …

by size and productivity, increases the likelihood of exporting …

or younger. In contrast, surviving Indian plants exhibit little growth in terms of either employment or output. Mexico is … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant …'s business strategy. We also find that plants sold post-intervention exhibit a significant improvement in productivity under new …. We further find that employees of target firms experience a reduction in work hours and stagnation in wages despite an …

-cancer control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision …'s employment, breast cancer may not be debilitating for those who remain in the work force. We explore numerous possible biases …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …