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Global Value Chains and the Productivity of Canadian Manufacturing Firms

出版	Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2013
ISBN	11002329749781100232973
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=sdjaoAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The level of uncertainty will depend on several factors: the nature of the functional form used in the multivariate analysis; the type of econometric technique employed; the appropriateness of the statistical assumptions embedded in the model or technique; the comprehensiveness of the variables included in the analysis; and the accuracy of the data that are utilized. [...] The magnitude and timing of the effects vary by industrial sector, internationalization process, and import-source/export-destination country in a way that suggests the most substantial advantages of GVC participation are derived from technological improvements. [...] To control for the problem that this self-selection gives to any assessment of the impact of becoming a GVC, propensity-score matching and difference-in-difference methods were used to analyze the impact that participating in a GVC had on productivity. [...] The extent of foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs illustrates the importance of GVC status.2 According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD 2007), in 2003, 54% of the world's manufactured imports were intermediate goods. [...] Section 2 of this report describes the data used in the analysis and the characteristics of GVC firms.