Firm-Level Productivity and Exports: The Case of Manufacturing Sector in India

K. Narayanan () and Santosh Kumar Sahu
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K. Narayanan: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

A chapter in Accelerators of India's Growth—Industry, Trade and Employment, 2020, pp 159-175 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This study differentiates total factor productivity (TFP) between the exporting and non-exporting firms in manufacturing sector of India. We use data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) from 2003 to 2015. For a better understanding of the productivity distribution, we create two subgroups of sample based on firm age and size. Moving away from parametric tests this study adopts non-parametric statistics in testing the hypothesis. Productivity levels are found to be higher for the exporting firms as compared to the non-exporting firm. Further, within the exporting firms, those with larger firm size have higher productivity compared to the smaller firms.

Keywords: TFP; Exports; Non-parametric tests; Manufacturing sector; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 F10 L10 M20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9397-7_8

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