multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …

productivity of the industrial sector is indeed the product of about five times 70%. But 0.70 to the power of five is 17%. The … least productive country in the sample, Bangladesh, has a productivity level worth about 2% of that of the richest nations … relative price of manufactured goods. We show that productivity differentials explain about half of the relative price …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … productivity. In response to an increase in openness, markups show a steep short run decline, which partly reverses later, while … productivity rises in a manner that increases over time. Our estimates suggest that EU manufacturing prices fell by 2 …

would reflect higher productivity of more senior workers. If this were true, the observation of an effect of seniority on … wages would depend on the presence of controls for individual productivity. In this paper we replicate, using personnel data …' evaluations were used as productivity indicators. Since the validity of supervisors' evaluations as measures of productivity has …

total factor productivity and output. It also finds no significant effects on employment. These results support the view …