Exporting and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the Taiwan Electronic Plants

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Title:	Exporting and Productivity Growth: Evidence from the Taiwan Electronic Plants
Authors:	鄒孟文;Tsou, Meng-wen;Jin-tan Liu;James K. Hammitt;Kuang-hsien Wang
Contributors:	淡江大學國際貿易學系暨國際企業研究所
Date:	2008-03
Issue Date:	2011-10-22 23:52:43 (UTC+8)
Abstract:	This paper uses propensity score matching techniques and ordinary least square regressions to examine the relationship between exporting and productivity growth in the Taiwan electronics industry. Using data from three census years, we find that plants with higher productivity growth tend to enter the export market, supporting the self‐selection mechanism. The evidence of learning‐by‐exporting is mixed, however. While the plants exporting throughout the sample period show small differences in productivity growth from non‐exporters in the downturn period, continuing exporters outperform non‐exporters in the upturn period. Thus, our results suggest that the direction of causality mainly runs from productivity to exporting rather than vice versa.
Relation:	Scottish Journal of Political Economy 55, pp.190-208
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-9485.2008.00450.x
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute & Department of International Business] Journal Article

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