Arbeitspapier
Exporting and productivity: Evidence for Egypt and Morocco
This paper investigates the link between exporting and importing activities and firm performance using a rich dataset on Egyptian and Moroccan firms. We test the export premium, self-selection and learning-by-exporting hypotheses using a number of firm characteristics. Our analysis also includes importing activities as a source of learning and considers their effects on productivity changes. A differences-in-differences matching estimator is used to address the endogeneity bias of target variables. The main results for Egyptian firms echo those reported for other countries using firm-level data, namely exporters are larger and more productive than non-exporters. In contrast, Moroccan exporters and non-exporters are strikingly similar. More specifically, no evidence is found of pre or post-entry differences in labour productivity for Moroccan firms.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 136
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Foreign Aid
- Thema
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firms
new-new trade theory
productivity
exporting
panel data
Egypt
Morocco
Exportindustrie
Produktivität
Unternehmen
Schätzung
Ägypten
Marokko
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
- (wo)
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Göttingen
- (wann)
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2012
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
- University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
Entstanden
- 2012