-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 …

productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …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 …

This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not … export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm …

rates of product innovation and experimentation and a low ability of the Pakistani export sector to enter into new higher …

corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …

, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …This paper analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using … insignificant once accounting for whether households farm export crops. This transition is driven by improvements across crop types …

tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant … associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …

The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

This paper examines the determinants of the productivity of Nigerian firms, using three waves of Enterprise Surveys … from 2007, 2009, and 2014 and 7,670 firms. The paper uses three alternative measures of productivity, which are found to be … highly correlated: labor productivity, value added per worker, and total factor productivity. The more notable trends in the …