This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into … firms, regardless of their productivity level, enter foreign markets every year with little sales and cease all exporting … activities in less than a year; 2) several of high-productivity firms choose to only serve their domestic market. …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …

and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium than …

Most of the empirical studies on the micro-level effects of exporting on productivity pay little attention to the … potentially heterogeneous effects of the different modes of export market entry. We study how productivity of firms is affected by … markets or with several products leads to higher growth in productivity, compared with entry into only one foreign market or …