manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

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

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 …