of personnel in technical-scientific occupations (PoTec). Using Propensity Score Matching (PSM) combined with differences …

learning-by-exporting hypothesis, that is, firms' performance improvements - in particular, in productivity - experienced after … the entry into the international market. In general, the confirmation of the learning-by-exporting hypothesis, when …

We use Propensity Score Matching in an novel way to classify Brazilian industrial firms according to their potential to … export. Our four-level classification specifically identifies non-exporting firms which have a degree of international … characteristics of these potential exporters with those of exporting firms and observing little or no difference between the two …