"The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been …-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using measures of export experience rather than export participation. They find … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current …

The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been …-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using measures of export experience rather than export participation. They find … productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has exported, after controlling for the effect of current …

findings indicate that export entrants improve their productivity in the first period after entry although this effect vanishes … Italian manufacturing firms. Using matched sampling techniques that control for selection bias, we estimate whether new export … in the subsequent period. This occurs for both total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity growth rates. Our …