 Productivity and wage premiums: Evidence from Vietnamese ordinary and processing exportersMai T.P. Vu, Flora Bellone () and Marion Dovis () Post-Print from HAL Abstract: We propose some new stylized facts on Vietnamese exporters that emphasize firm heterogeneity in trade regimes and firm ownership. We show first that the distribution of firms' export intensities is U-shaped with more than half of Vietnamese exporters exporting more than 50% of their output. This contrasts with the export patterns in industrialized countries but is similar to the export intensity distribution for other emerging economies with strong participation in global value chains. Second, we show that export premia, evaluated in terms of both productivity and wage indexes, are positive only for Vietnamese exporters involved primarily in ordinary trade, and that processing exporters exhibit lower productivity indexes and pay lower wages than their non-exporting counterparts. This pattern is more pronounced among the group of foreign-owned firms in Vietnam compared to the group of domestic firms and is in line with previous findings for China. Keywords: HCC (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in International Economics, 2018, ⟨10.1016/j.inteco.2017.10.006⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01670190 DOI: 10.1016/j.inteco.2017.10.006 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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