foreign direct investment (FDI) affects firm productivity, when productivity is endogeneous as a function of training. The … main result of our paper is that, with endogeneous productivity, exporting results in lower productivity than does FDI, but … training, higher wages and higher productivity than does production for the home market. A further interesting and unexpected …

foreign direct investment (FDI) affects firm productivity, when productivity is endogeneous as a function of training. The … main result of our paper is that, with endogeneous productivity, exporting results in lower productivity than does FDI, but … training, higher wages and higher productivity than does production for the home market. A further interesting and unexpected …

productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore …This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service- producing firms in … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

driver of productivity gains in domestic firms (15:6%), in a way that allows the latter to catch up with foreign-owned firms … causality. Results are robust to placebo tests and to different estimators of Total Factor Productivity. Eventually, we argue …

development economics: the expansion of firms' export destinations across space and time (chapter 1), the extension of structural …

and exit of the domestic and export markets. We calibrate the model and test some of its predictions using a rich dataset … of Italian manufacturing firms for the period 1995-2003. Financing constraints reduce the aggregate productivity gains …