This paper investigates the impact of sustained lower productivity growth on exports, by looking at the role of the … productivity distribution and allocative efficiency as drivers of export performance. It follows and goes beyond the work of Barba … Navaretti et al. (2017), analysing the effects of productivity on exports depending on the dynamics of allocative efficiency …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service- producing firms in … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

reallocations - induce productivity changes within the firm. We then empirically test for this connection between the demand shocks … and the productivity of multi-product firms exporting to those destinations. We find that the effect of those demand … shocks on productivity are substantial - and explain an important share of aggregate productivity fluctuations for French …