This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

We examine the causal effects of alternative foreign technology transfer channels on the productivity of Turkish … investment (FDI), exporting, and importing on both total factor and labor productivity, with FDI dominating and importing the … least significant. Further, although internationally linked plants on average exhibit better productivity and differing …

dispersion in revenue productivity should not be dismissed as mere artifacts of misspecification or measurement errors …

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 …

There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to their productivity … trajectory once they have entered? Theory points to the possibiliity of a further productivity boost, attributable to the effects …

This paper examines the causal relationship between productivity and exporting in German manufacturing. We find a … causal link from high productivity to presence in foreign markets, as postulated by a recent literature on international … markets enables firms to achieve further productivity improvements, without finding significant evidence for this. We conclude …

This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish … manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity … technical progress plays the main role in productivity growth …

This article examines the short-run and long-run dynamics of the export-productivity relationship for Turkish …) estimator to achieve this objective. Our results suggest that permanent productivity shocks generate larger long-run export … level responses, as compared to long-run productivity responses from permanent export shocks. This result suggests that …