This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … that are originally more productive and have better performances are more likely to enter export, Latvian and Estonian … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …

Export growth requires not only entry into new markets, but also the survival of trade flows. This paper analyses the … role of initial product export share and product differentiation in Estonian manufacturing export survival. For this … purpose, detailed firm-product-destination level export data is used from 1995-2011. The data show that adding and dropping …

Recent empirical studies of international trade have stressed that firm level decisions about the number of export …. We investigate how decisions about the export product mix are associated with aggregate export dynamics and productivity … of firms. For that purpose we use detailed product data and export market level data of the full population of Estonia …

output volatility. In this vein, our paper investigates whether exporting and export diversification at the firm level have … large negative shocks in export markets. In contrast to the literature and empirical findings for large or advanced … countries we do not find a statistically significant and consistent mitigating effect from export diversification in the Central …

meet the EU's strict hygiene and structural requirements have enhanced their competitiveness and opened up better export … opportunities to the EU-15 market. Enhanced competitiveness means not only larger export volumes, but also redirection of exports …

This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … that are originally more productive and have better performances are more likely to enter export, Latvian and Estonian … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …