Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Yama Temouri (), Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner ()
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Yama Temouri: Aston University

No 5147, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages on average in all three countries. Results for profitability differ across borders – profitability of exporters is significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant relationship between profitability and starting to export is found.

Keywords: business services firms; France; UK; exports; self-selection; Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D21 F14 L80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2010-08
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Published - published in: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2013, 25 (2), 146-158

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Journal Article: Self-selection into export markets by business services firms – Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom (2013)
Working Paper: Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom (2011)
Working Paper: Self-selection into export markets by business services firms – Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom (2010)
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