human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … estimation methods. Furthermore, we examine the importance of absorptive capacity in enhancing the benefits from importing. Using …

Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …

This paper examines productivity differences between internationally trading and non-trading firms using data on a …

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential …-selection effect for both importing and exporting firms with a stronger effect for importers. The results suggest that the nature of … sunk costs varies between importing and exporting activities with importers facing higher sunk costs. Tariffs represent a …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

business subsidies on firm productivity performance and on the relationship between firms’ lagged labor productivity and market … firms’ productivity performance. It seems that particularly employment and investment subsidies tend to be allocated to the … relatively less efficient companies. We further observe that a decline in the firm’s lagged labor productivity levels are clearly …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

productivity and wage growth are higher for newly founded MNEs than for national rms. Employment growth is superior before …