starting to export on plant performance. We find positive effects on growth of employment, labor productivity, and wages. …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …

. In estimating productivity, we control for a possible simultaneity bias by using semiparametric estimation techniques …This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We … examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the … productivity and a proxy for labor productivity, we find significant ex-ante differences in productivity between exporters and non …-exporters and no difference in the ex-post productivity gains. These findings suggest that even in a large emerging economy with …