This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. -- Business services firms ; exports ; self-selection ; France …

evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …

firms that start or stop to export over the period under investigation, and that are not representative for the bulk of … firms that either export or not. …

- they have a larger propensity to export, export a larger share of total sales, export more goods and export to a larger …

. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …

firms is somewhat less dominated by firms that both export and import than trade by manufacturing firms. In terms of value …. Few firms export many services or to many countries. Those firms that export services to many countries account for a … large share of export value; this is not the case for all countries for the firms which export many services. -- exports …

; there is strong evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in …