How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

"Learning by exporting refers to the mechanism whereby firms improve their performance (productivity) after entering … from a large internal inconsistency: they rely on an exogenous evolving productivity process. I show how recent proxy … estimators can accommodate endogenous productivity processes such as learning by exporting. I rely on my framework to discuss the …