The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These … ; Productivity …

labour productivity and highly skilled employees on generating domestic value added in the manufacturing sector. CEE …

-constraints and the profitability of engaging in innovation (R&D). We decompose the effects of RER changes on productivity growth …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …