In this paper, we analyze the joint effect of persistency in innovation and export on firms' total factor productivity … productivity results than persistently exporting (innovating) firms with no persistent innovation (export). Combining both …

employment, give higher wages, have higher labor and total factor productivity. The effect of exporting slightly differs by … industries and it is more pronounced for SMEs than for large companies. Service traders increase their productivity before …

relationship between trade status, firm size and firm-level productivity in the Netherlands, thereby focusing particularly on small … and medium sized enterprizes (SMEs). The empirical evidence can be summarized in four stylized facts. The productivity … ranking by trade status of Dutch manufacturing firms in increasing order of productivity is: non-traders, importers, exporters …

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 …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

This paper investigates the presence of productivity spillovers due to exporting. In particular, we examine whether … productivity gains from exporting spillover upstream (to suppliers), downstream (to customers) or horizontally (to competitors …). Using plant-level data on Indonesian manufacturing sectors, we find productivity gains to downstream firms of approximately …