This article examines the performances of French exporting firms. Using a highly detailed database, we confirm that exporting firms are much bigger, more productive and more profitable than domestic ones. This difference is particularly strong for firms exporting to non-eu markets, and for small...

[spa] Internacionalización de las empresas industriales y empleo: un análisis sobre el periodo 1986-1992 . . El importar o exportar no es sin consecuencia sobre la evolución del nivel y de la estructura del empleo de una empresa. Esta relación entre «internacionalización» y empleo se...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the cohesion versus growth tradeoff on European regions at a fine geographical disaggregation level. We use data on gdp per capita at the nuts3 level for 1980-2000 to estimate the influence of income dispersion within nuts1 on their economic...