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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia

Mary Hallward-DriemeierGiuseppe IarossiKenneth L. Sokoloff

其他書名	A Comparative Analysis with Firm-level Data
出版	National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=iz-yAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are significantly more productive, and the productivity gap is larger the less developed is the local market. We exploit the rich set of firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more-productive firms self-select into exporting; rather, firms that explicitly target export markets consistently make different decisions regarding investment, training, technology and the selection of inputs, and thus raise their productivity.