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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 136

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Trade: General
Foreign Aid
Thema
firms
new-new trade theory
productivity
exporting
panel data
Egypt
Morocco
Exportindustrie
Produktivität
Unternehmen
Schätzung
Ägypten
Marokko

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
(wo)
Göttingen
(wann)
2012

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
  • University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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