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Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials and Turnover in Vietnamese Manufacturing

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  • Doan Thi Thanh Ha

    (International Graduate School of Social Sciences, Yokohama National University and Faculty of International Economics and Business, Foreign Trade University)

  • Kozo KIYOTA

    (Keio Economic Observatory, Keio University)

Abstract

This paper examines the relationship between productivity differentials and firm turnover in Vietnamese manufacturing. We utilize firm-level data between 2000 and 2009, including the year 2007, when Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO). Our major findings are twofold. First, the productivity of entrants, survivors, and exiters increased simultaneously from 2006 to 2007. This result suggests that the cutoff productivity level increased after trade liberalization. Second, the resource reallocation between firms was facilitated after the liberalization. These findings are consistent with the implications of the recent models of international trade and firm heterogeneity.

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  • Doan Thi Thanh Ha & Kozo KIYOTA, 2014. "Firm-level Evidence on Productivity Differentials and Turnover in Vietnamese Manufacturing," Working Papers DP-2014-07, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA).
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    Keywords

    Total factor productivity; Aggregate productivity; Trade Liberalization; Firm turnover; Vietnam;
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    JEL classification:

    • O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
    • D22 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
    • O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade

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