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The Impact of Exporting and Importing Goods and Services on Productivity in the UK

Harris, R.; Moffat, J.

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This paper investigates the impact of exporting and importing on productivity for UK plantsusing a combination of regression and propensity score matching. Unlike earlier papers, the data allows us to distinguish the effects of trade in goods and services. In confirmation of the results from other countries, we find that plants that both export and import have higher productivity than plants that only do one of these activities. In manufacturing, this is the case regardless of whether the trade is in goods or services (which suggests that servitisation of manufacturing is beneficial).In services, the results are more mixed and the benefits from involvement in international goods networks that are seen in manufacturing do not occur to the same extent (however, for the wholesale and retail sectors, trade in both goods and services is generally productivity enhancing).

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Harris, R., & Moffat, J. (2015). The Impact of Exporting and Importing Goods and Services on Productivity in the UK. World Economy, 38(11), 1781-1794. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12292

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 1, 2015
Publication Date Nov 1, 2015
Deposit Date May 1, 2015
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal World Economy
Print ISSN 0378-5920
Electronic ISSN 1467-9701
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 38
Issue 11
Pages 1781-1794
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12292
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1430173

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This is the accepted version of the following article: Harris, R. and Moffat, J. (2015), The Impact of Exporting and Importing Goods and Services on Productivity in the UK. World Economy, 38(11): 1781-1794, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/twec.12292. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.




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