Entry to foreign markets and productivity: Evidence from a matched sample of Turkish manufacturing firms

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2015-07-04

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DALGIÇ, BAŞAK
FAZLIOĞLU, BURCU
Karaoglan, Deniz

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We examine the effects of international trading activities of firms on creating productivity gains in Turkey by using a recent firm-level data set over the period 2003-2010. We establish treatment models and investigate the productivity improvements of firms through trade by using propensity score matching techniques together with difference-in-difference estimates. Three different groups of treatment are constructed: (1) firms that are involved only with import activities, (2) firms that are involved only with export activities and (3) firms that are involved with both export and import activities. The results of the study suggest that both exporting and importing have positive significant effects on total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity (LP) of firms. Importing is found to have a greater impact on productivity of firms compared to exporting. Further, two-way trade is found to have more significant effects than those of one-way trade on firm productivity. Finally, our results indicate that international trade has greater impact on LP rather than TFP of firms.

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Popensity score matching, Exports, Productivity, Imports

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67256

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JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

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https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2014.948904

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Department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, Article

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B. DALGIÇ, B. FAZLIOĞLU, and D. Karaoglan, “Entry to foreign markets and productivity: Evidence from a matched sample of Turkish manufacturing firms,” JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, pp. 638–659, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/67256.