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 …- proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …

The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … firms, with a significant gap between them and importersonly and non-traders. tfp is calculated using a modified version of … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These …

labour productivity and highly skilled employees on generating domestic value added in the manufacturing sector. CEE …, manufacturing in CEE countries does not serve a 'carrier function' for services to contribute to a country's export performance. …

This paper addresses the lack of connection between theory and empirics in most export diversification - economic … development studies. We provide a Ricardian-based theoretical explanation of countries' relative export variety as a function of … the level of technology and country size assessed with respect to the rest of the world. Relative export diversification …

of final destination. Germany plays the increasing role in CEE export redirection (and vice versa) to extra …-European destinations, especially to the US, China, and Russia. Additionally, we state that the Baltic countries and Poland export domestic …

for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In export …-oriented emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level TFP, higher sales and cash-flow, and higher … probabilities to engage in R&D and to export. We find negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are relatively …

productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …

productivity. Low productivity firm's optimal choice of employment and wage will be unaffected by the introduction of the minimum … wage. High productivity firms comply so that wage and employment effects are non-negative for these firms. …

We develop a nonparametric instrumental variable approach for the estimation of average treatment effects on hazard …