PubData Leuphana Repository: Exports and productivity growth - First evidence from a continuous treatment approach

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Ressourcentyp	Arbeitspapier
Titel	Exports and productivity growth - First evidence from a continuous treatment approach
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-1243
Handle	20.500.14123/1306
Autor*in	Fryges, Helmut 1051420792 Wagner, Joachim 0000-0001-6058-4536 129798215
Abstract	Abstract: A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm’s export status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non-exporting firms. In this paper, we apply the newly developed generalised propensity score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms’ export activities. Using the GPS method and a large panel data set for German manufacturing firms, we estimate the relationship between a firm’s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms’ export activities on labour productivity growth. However, exporting improves labour productivity growth only within a sub-interval of the range of firms’ export-sales ratios.
Sprache	Englisch
Schlagwörter	Export; Productivity; Continuous Treatment; Dose-response Function; Ausfuhrüberschuss; Produktivität
Jahr der Veröffentlichung in PubData	2007
Art der Veröffentlichung	Erstveröffentlichung
Publikationsversion	Veröffentlichte Version
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung	2007-05-02
Entstehungskontext	Forschung
Veröffentlicht durch	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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