Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of Vietnam

Carol Newman, John Rand, Finn Tarp and Thi Tue Anh Nguyen

No wp-2014-070, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11. We separate out productivity effects of exporting due to self-selection allowing us to identify the extent to which firms learn-by-exporting. We examine the relationship between exporting and productivity in foreign-owned firms and private domestic firms separately and find the former benefit more from exporting, particularly wholly foreign-owned firms.

Keywords: Business enterprises; Commerce; Organizational behavior; Panel analysis; Productivity; Technological innovations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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