We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

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. …

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

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at …

A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing … provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German … exporting increases productivity. …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of …, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity for services firms …