too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases … import and export appear to be the most productive, followed, in descending order, by importers only, exporters only and non …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

Belgian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2005. Initial evidence suggests that, before export market entry, exporters to more …-by-exporting effects. However, applying matching methodology to formally evaluate the causal effects of export market entry on productivity …

employment between firms having different trading status account for 6 to 30 percent of total job reallocation. This effect is …

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