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Exports, Productivity and Firms Size in Brazil

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  • Gomes, Victor
  • Ellery Jr., Roberto Goes

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Using data at firm level this paper studies the behavior of Brazilian firms that exports a share of its production. The main findings are: only a small fraction of firms sell to foreign countries, most exporting firms sell to few markets, variations in Brazilian exports across destinations represents differences in number of Brazilian firms selling there much more than the amount that each one sells, exporting firms are larger and more productive than non-exporting firms. About 40\% of the exporting firms sell only to the Mercosul, those firms are smaller and less productive than the firms that exports to others countries.

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  • Gomes, Victor & Ellery Jr., Roberto Goes, 2007. "Exports, Productivity and Firms Size in Brazil," Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), vol. 61(1), August.
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:epgrbe:v:61:y:2007:i:1:a:1025
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    1. Tabrizy, Saleh S. & Trofimenko, Natalia, 2010. "Scope for export-led growth in a large emerging economy: Is India learning by exporting?," Kiel Working Papers 1633, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
    2. Araújo, Bruno César & Paz, Lourenço S., 2014. "The effects of exporting on wages: An evaluation using the 1999 Brazilian exchange rate devaluation," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 111(C), pages 1-16.
    3. Paz, Lourenco, 2012. "The impacts of trade liberalization on informal labor markets: an evaluation of the Brazilian case," MPRA Paper 38858, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    4. Lourenço S. Paz, 2015. "The welfare impacts of a revenue-neutral switch from tariffs to VAT with intermediate inputs and a VAT threshold," The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 465-498, June.

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