, both productivity and wage growth are higher for newly founded MNEs than for national firms. Employment growth is superior …

patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity … allows us to compare productivity over the entire distribution. Our results show robust support for the prediction from …

productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a … market regulation may adversely affect TFP growth and may thus impair convergence. -- Total factor productivity growth …

Export-sales ratio , labour productivity , continuous treatment , dose-response function … the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …