Non-scale endogenous growth effects of subsidies for exporters

Oscar Afonso and Armando Silva ()

FEP Working Papers from Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto

Abstract: We built a general equilibrium endogenous growth model in which final goods are produced either in the relatively skilled-labour intensive exports sector or in the relatively unskilled-labour intensive domestic sector. We show that, by affecting the technological-knowledge bias, subsidies explain the simultaneous rise in the exports sector, the skill wage premium and the economic growth rate. Then, we use a Portuguese longitudinal database (1996-2003) and implement a propensity score matching approach to shed light upon the causal nexus between production-related subsidies and exports. Our empirical results seem to prove the theoretical predictions: subsides generate the rise in the wage premium of exporters and the increase in the relative size of export sector, even if no impact of subsidies is found in the capacity of enhancing new exporters.

Keywords: Subsidies; Exports; Scale-invariant growth; Wages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 F13 F14 H29 J31 O13 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2011-09
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