Productivity and Export Performance: Micro-Level Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria

This paper investigates how productivity influences firms’ exports. Various firm characteristics are employed to test the self-selection hypothesis alongside the effects of firms’ productivity on their share of exports in total sales. Using a pseudo-panel data set constructed from the firm-level dat...

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Published in:Frontiers of economics in China 2019-09, Vol.14 (3), p.428-460
Main Authors: Akims, Kanang Amos, Ngui, Dianah Mukwate
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Directing
export performance
Exports
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industries
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Markets
Panel data
Production management
Productivity
Sales
self-selection
Selfselection
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