While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and average industry productivity increases due to a selection effect. These …

This paper reassesses the relationship between density and productivity by using detailed geo-coded data on wages and … productivity across squares. The estimated elasticity is in the 9-10 percent interval, and is insensitive to whether we employ a … to (or a location in) a larger agglomeration. Moreover, the estimated relationship between productivity and density is …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …

productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage … disparities into an industrial composition component and productivity component. According to theory it is expected that … productivity is higher in larger regions due to different kinds of economies of agglomeration. Also, larger regions are able to …