manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

-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 …

model is estimated in order to evaluate the sources of productivity growth: technological progress, technical efficiency … productivity growth, followed by gains in technical efficiency, and to a lesser extent by exploitation of scale economies. Overall …, we find an average productivity growth of 39 per cent within the sample period. -- European railways ; deregulation …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign … direct investment ; productivity ; heterogeneous firms ; stochastic dominance …

Betriebsrat, Produktivität, stochastische Dominanz - works councils, productivity, stochastic dominance … productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a … framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ("learning-by-importing"). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

Export-sales ratio , labour productivity , continuous treatment , dose-response function … the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …