mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …

-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …

Consisting of teams working with firm level data, the International Study Group on Exports and Productivity has used … relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from … for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong …