their association with productivity growth across 19 sectors in UK manufacturing between 1970 and 1992. Using the … in 1970. Sectors classified as relatively open enjoyed significantly higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP … productivity and lagged values of each of the observed measures of openness. This relationship was explained by a strong …

increases firm productivity …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) for Brazilian manufacturing firms over … the period 2000-2008, both under the assumption of an exogenous or an endogenous law of motion for productivity. The … law of motion for productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the …

In this paper we show that the relationship between trade liberalization and fi rm productivity is sensitive to the … method used to estimate the production function. We estimate the productivity of Colombian manufacturing plants using the … come to surprisingly different conclusions about firm productivity growth after the liberalization. Results from a growth …

I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …

findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes … in the subsequent period. This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity growth rates. Our …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … in skill intensity that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor … intensity across firms that is positively correlated with firm productivity. Using French firm-level data for the years 1996 to …