entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …

This paper contributes to the literature by comparing the productivity distribution for firms with various numbers of … goods. It applies a non-parametric test for first-order stochastic dominance of one productivity distribution over another … imported from, the higher is the productivity of the firms - not only on average, but over the whole productivity distribution …

This paper examines the productivity of firms and their ability to enter the export market, i.e., the self … firms, and that private firms are more export intensive than public firms. Regarding the determinants of labour productivity …-selection hypothesis and the determinants of labour productivity at the firm level for India's major exporting manufacturing industries …