This paper examines input and productivity dynamics of manufacturing firms in the period leading to and following … export market entry. We examine 3 possible explanations for the observed productivity gap between exporting and non …

abroad (market-driven vs. resource-driven FDI). Second, we highlight the role of productivity growth in the post-entry period …. Our findings suggest that productivity affects the FDI decision considerably whereas expected feedback and learning … effects of FDI on productivity are remarkably lower. We further detect that more market-driven MNEs exhibit a higher …

different internationalization states according to their productivity levels. While these papers ignore the fact, that the … with a broader investment strategy, reflecting a great importance of market-driven motives, show higher productivity levels …

productivity and wage growth are higher for newly founded MNEs than for national rms. Employment growth is superior before …

This paper combines a literature identifying the sources of productivity growth with a literature exploring differences … aggregate labour productivity growth in the Irish manufacturing sector between 1998 and 2004. Using the Breunig and Wong (2007 …) decomposition technique, we uncover the contributions to aggregate labour productivity of continuing, entering and exiting firms …

Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …

Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

We study the link between exporting and productivity at the firm level. Like in previous studies we get support for … also obtain evidence for that exporting further increases firm productivity. Exporting firms appear to have significantly … higher productivity than non-exporting. Moreover, exporters - mainly firms that increase their export intensities - have …