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Export Behavior and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms.: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Castellani, Davide |
| Copyright Year | 2001 |
| Abstract | Export Behavior and Productivity Growth: Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Firms. — This paper provides econometric evidence supporting the hypothesis that exporting implies learning effects. Learning-by-exporting is modeled as a change, induced by export behavior, in the stochastic process governing firms' productivity. Empirically, this is implemented by specifying cross-section regressions of labor productivity growth on measures of export behavior, controlling for past productivity growth and other firms' characteristics. Using a sample of Italian manufacturing firms, it is found that exporters do not exhibit faster productivity growth. Nevertheless, growth in value added per worker has a positive and significant relation with firms' export intensity. In other words, only firms substantially involved in exporting have a significantly higher rate of productivity growth. This result suggests that learning-by-exporting is by no means simply the outcome of the presence in the export market. |
| Starting Page | 605 |
| Ending Page | 605 |
| Page Count | 1 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.2139/ssrn.268640 |
| Volume Number | 138 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/BF02707654 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |