This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and …

services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …

. Estimates based on the conditional logit model show a significantly positive relationship between initial labour productivity … probability to export and initial labour productivity is low once firm effects are controlled for. Surprisingly, the impact of … labour productivity on exporting does not differ between micro enterprises and the remaining SMEs (10-249 employees …

This paper focuses on gains from trade due to rising within-firm productivity in presence of services exporting. The … complementarity between exporting and investing in productivity enhancements is investigated by using descriptive regressions using … rich, firm-level data for the period 2003-2011 for Turkey. The authors use three productivity measures for robustness …

This paper focuses on gains from trade due to rising within-firm productivity in presence of services exporting. The … complementarity between exporting and investing in productivity enhancements is investigated by using descriptive regressions using … rich, firm-level data for the period 2003–2011 for Turkey. The authors use three productivity measures for robustness …