exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. This note uses recently available comparable high quality firm level data for six European countries (including Italy … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

successful and therefore not sustainable in the long run. My analyses of pharmaceutical firms in Germany, Italy and the United …