level of employment, sourcing from abroad, investment in product improvement and average productivity are associated with a …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

time, some existing jobs may be altered, reduced or eliminated. Therefore, besides assessing the extent of employment … study looks at the trends in domestic and foreign value-added share, and employment and skill-composition of jobs supported …-14. Secondly, export related jobs grew at a much faster rate than overall employment during the period. Thirdly, a chunk of these …

While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … provinces with weaker institutions. The same type of firms also enjoy the largest productivity gains immediately following …

negative effect on firms employment, total factor productivity (TFP), and revenue. A 1-percentage-point increase in the measure … production-worker employment at large firms, reduces TFP at medium-productivity firms, reduces the total revenue of low … of Chinese import competition in El Salvador reduces the employment of production workers by 2.27%. The negative impact …

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …

efforts are affecting the dynamic relationship between environmental efficiency and economic productivity, turning it from an …