Exporting and productivity: Evidence for Egypt and Morocco

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: cege Discussion Papers ; No. 136

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Trade: General ; Foreign Aid
• Subject: firms ; new-new trade theory ; productivity ; exporting ; panel data ; Egypt ; Morocco ; Exportindustrie ; Produktivität ; Unternehmen ; Schätzung ; Ägypten ; Marokko

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Göttingen, Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research (cege)
• (where): Göttingen
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/70237
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET