', in particular the role of productivity and sunk costs of exporting in the firms’ export decision. It also takes into … firms, regardless of their productivity level, enter foreign markets every year with little sales and cease all exporting … activities in less than a year; 2) several of high-productivity firms choose to only serve their domestic market. …

effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of … similar. More specifically, no evidence is found of pre or post-entry differences in labour productivity for Moroccan firms …

We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity …, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between … 1994 and 2016, by focusing on the role of reallocation with respect to both aggregate measures. Firm-level productivity and … markups are estimated based on a gross output translog production function using popular estimation methods. I find an …

Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: productivity and investments are positively … correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …

This paper examines the effect of firm-level investment in capital on export entry and productivity growth among … ease and increase their productivity as a result of export market participation. New entrants who survive their first year … competitive in export markets. Moreover, firm-level investment helps small exporters to generate higher productivity once they …

(job security, health, subjective job quality, and wages). Worker voice slightly raised firm survival, productivity, and …