This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

time continue to export. -- Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany … presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in …

Export-sales ratio , labour productivity , continuous treatment , dose-response function … reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …

same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employeremployee data from Germany to analyze this exporter …-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60% earn about 1.8 (0.9) % more than similar employees in otherwise …