This paper examines the productivity of firms and their ability to enter the export market, i.e., the self …-selection hypothesis and the determinants of labour productivity at the firm level for India's major exporting manufacturing industries … during 1991-2009. The paper also examines whether export intensity at the firm level differs between domestic-controlled and …

Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996 - 2009. We test two hypotheses regarding exporting: selection into exporting … entering into the export market. We find evidence in support of both self-selection and learning by exporting. …

Tunisian manufacturing firms from 2004 to 2006. In particular, we examine whether more productive firms self-select into export … exporting firms from others. The results suggest that fully exporting firms self-select more often into export markets and … for learning by exporting. Moreover, the scope for learning might also be influenced by export destination, as in the case …

The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that … simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The Nature and Growth of …, sourcing inputs from abroad plays an important role in continuing to export. Thus, it seems that small firms which are both …

. This paper overcomes this by analysing a new dataset of the population of manufacturing firms that are matched to their … export transactions. South African firm-level exporting is similar to the stylized facts of firm-level exporting found … exported, but also in terms of the number of products and destinations they export too. These in turn are related to firm …