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 …

A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two … the individual or firm owning the idea. Typically these steps are combined into a single model of the “invention in/productivity …

-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 …

We investigate the effects on individuals’ productivity (captured through their wage income) of two social networks in … community most affects an individual’s productivity. We distinguish between individuals engaged in “creative” and “non creative … neighborhoods do matter for individuals’ productivity, although the effect is stronger for noncreatives. For both creatives and …