largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications …

largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications …

more advanced economies. Lowering barriers to the international division of labor should be part of any pro-growth policy. …

more advanced economies. Lowering barriers to the international division of labor should be part of any pro-growth policy. …

Consisting of teams working with firm level data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used … relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from … for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …