and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export … relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … export data at the firm-product level, we discover new and, heretofore, unknown facts about multi-product manufacturing …

international trade, together with some new facts. First, the availability of information on import and export enables us to … differentiate firms involved in both trading activities - namely two-way traders - from firms that only export, and from those that … only import. We show that firms engaged in both import and export outperform those involved in either importing or …

, firms that engage in the foreign production of final goods, in addition to export activities, are more productive than firms … that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in … inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

sales, and we show that import is even more concentrated than export both within sectors and along the sector and country …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

productivity not only increases the likelihood of exporting, but also the chances of firm survival and continued export market …This paper deploys a dynamic extension of the Melitz (2003) model to generate predictions on export market exit and … engagements. We relate these predictions to the empirical stylized facts of export market exit and firm survival based on Danish …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …