-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … lognormal distribution of firm productivity allows the Melitz model to successfully match the role of the intensive margin … methods and the EDD, a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor … productivity under alternative assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following a GMM procedure. In …

This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … observables, including sector, region, employment, total factor productivity (TFP), capital intensity, wages, support from …

-unemployment jobs. It takes advantage of a natural experiment introduced by a change in Slovenia's unemployment insurance law that …