The empirical evidence on learning by exporting is mixed. In this paper, we examine whether productivity growth among … evidence for learning by exporting in a panel of manufacturing firms. There is also no evidence of heterogeneity in learning by … exporting with regard to age, size, or productivity. The study finds that exporters grow bigger at a significantly higher rate …

Uruguayan firms for the period 1997-2006. We study two effects: self-selection and learning by exporting. There is evidence of … productivity through learning by exporting. However, evidence of learning by exporting is found for those firms starting to export …

by exporting, was shown to be invalid through employing fixed effect panel data estimation, and fixed effect Instrumental … statistical evidence for the self-selection of more productive firms into the export market. The alternative hypothesis, learning …

This paper analyses whether the productivity gains associated with learning-by-exporting (controlling for self …

Self-selection and learning-by-exporting are the main explanations for the higher productivity of exporting firms. But …, whereas evidence on self-selection is largely undisputed, results on learning-by-exporting are mixed and far from conclusive …. However, recent research (De Loecker, 2010) has shown that the conclusions from previous learning-by-exporting studies may …