IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/fec/journl/v14y2019i3p428-460.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

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

Author

Listed:
  • Kanang Amos Akims

    (Department of Economics, University of Jos, Jos 930001, Nigeria)

  • Dianah Mukwate Ngui

    (School of Economics, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya)

Abstract

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 data for the manufacturing sector in Nigeria, we find no evidence that higher productivity influences the decision on whether or not a firm would participate in exports. However, it is established that higher productivity increases the share of exports in total sales of firms that are already participating in foreign markets. A policy implication of our result is that Nigeria can realize a larger share of manufactured exports in total merchandise exports by directing efforts towards improving primarily the productivity of firms that are already involved in exports.

Suggested Citation

  • Kanang Amos Akims & Dianah Mukwate Ngui, 2019. "Productivity and Export Performance: Micro-Level Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Nigeria," Frontiers of Economics in China-Selected Publications from Chinese Universities, Higher Education Press, vol. 14(3), pages 428-460, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:fec:journl:v:14:y:2019:i:3:p:428-460
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/10.3868/s060-008-019-0019-0
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    productivity; self-selection; export performance; manufacturing sector;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fec:journl:v:14:y:2019:i:3:p:428-460. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Frank H. Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.