workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

in the United Kingdom. It is the first detailed study of this issue for the UK. Outsourcing is calculated using import …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm’s export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms’ export activities …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …