Using firm level data on Italian manufacturing industry, we examine how trade activities are related to workforce … consistent with multi-attribute models on firm heterogeneity and trade. In fact we show that even after controlling for various … workers than non exporters. Second, we consider the engagement of firms in international transactions, either by means of …

, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor … of FDI in certain regional industries are associated with higher performance indicators of firms' not receiving FDI in … those same regional industries. …

like competition and linkage effects through industrial and regional spillovers respectively. We use a simple Cournot … competition model in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms …