Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms … concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper … quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset of Belgian manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2004 providing information …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first … within firms. Using structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this …

This paper examines the impact of imports from developed countries on industry-specific employment in India between … the differential changes in employment within industries. The variation in the changes in imports to other developing … countries is used to identify the component of the changes in imports driven by world demand. The results suggest that the …

Inequalities between workers of different skills have been growing in the era of globalization. Firms …' internationalization mode has an impact on job stability. Exporting firms are not only exposed to different foreign shocks, they also pay … workers is expected to be less volatile than for unskilled workers. In this paper we study the relationship between firms …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service- producing firms in … productivity in service-producing firms, revealing a cost cutting impact on these firms. Immigrants also reduce the extent of … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore …