Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms : Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom. / Temouri, Yama; Wagner, Joachim; Vogel, Alexander.
Lüneburg : Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2010. (Working paper series in economics; No. 183).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Self-selection into export markets by business services firms
T2 - Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
AU - Temouri, Yama
AU - Wagner, Joachim
AU - Vogel, Alexander
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 15 - 18
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Economics
KW - business services firms
KW - exports
KW - self-selection
KW - France
KW - Germany
KW - UK
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in economics
BT - Self-selection into export markets by business services firms
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -