Title:
Firm productivity and exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms
Firm productivity and exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms
| dc.contributor.author | Bigsten, Arne | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gebreeyesus, Mulu | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Göteborgs universitet. Handelshögskolan | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-10-13T19:21:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-10-13T19:21:10Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009-10-07 | |
| dc.description | Presented at GLOBELICS 2009, 7th International Conference, 6-8 October, Dakar, Senegal. | en_US |
| dc.description | Parallel session 2: Innovation and firm performance | |
| dc.description | Previously released as: Working papers in economics, No. 303, April 2008. | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper examines the causal relationship between exporting and productivity using a ten years long plant-level panel data set from an annual census of Ethiopian manufacturing, rarely available in the sub-Saharan Africa. We exploited its length to trace the trajectory of TFP and other productivity measures of groups of firms classified by their export history. We then tested learning-by-exporting using a one-step system-GMM approach with the export-status included directly in the production function. We addressed potential endogeneity problems by using instrumental variables, and also applied a matching analysis to address potential selection bias. We found strong evidence of not only self-selection but also learning-by-exporting. Depending on the specification previous exporting appears to have shifted the production function by 15-32 %. Exporters had on average three times more employees, and paid 1.6 times higher average wage than those of non-exporters. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/35254 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Georgia Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | GLOBELICS09. Session 2 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Productivity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Exports | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.subject | Manufacturing | en_US |
| dc.title | Firm productivity and exports: Evidence from Ethiopian manufacturing firms | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type.genre | Proceedings | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | School of Public Policy | |
| local.contributor.corporatename | Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts | |
| local.relation.ispartofseries | Globelics Conference | |
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