Imports and TFP at the firm level: the role of absorptive capacity

Patricia Augier, Olivier Cadot and Marion Dovis ()
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Patricia Augier: GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - ECM - École Centrale de Marseille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms (19912002). We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP and apply a diffindiff estimator with a control group constructed by propensityscore matching. In the second, direct method, we estimate TFP with imported inputs as a state variable in one stage. Both approaches show that the effect of a firm's decision to source intermediates and capital equipment abroad on its TFP depends critically on its capacity to absorb technology, measured by the proportion of skilled labour.

Keywords: Economie; quantitative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (3), pp.956-981. ⟨10.1111/caje.12034⟩

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