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Productivity of Foreign and Domestic Firms in the Malaysian Manufacturing Industry *
Author(s) -
Oguchi Noriyoshi,
Amdzah Nor Aini Mohd,
Bakar Zai,
Abidin Rauzah Zainal,
Shafii Mazlina
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
asian economic journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.345
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-8381
pISSN - 1351-3958
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8381.2002.00149.x
Subject(s) - total factor productivity , productivity , manufacturing , manufacturing sector , position (finance) , economics , international trade , foreign ownership , agricultural economics , business , international economics , foreign direct investment , macroeconomics , finance , marketing
The relative position of total factor productivity (TFP) of both foreign and domestic rms in the manufacturing industry in Malaysia is estimated for three‐ and ve‐digit level subsectors. It was found that the differences between foreign and domestic rms varied widely from sector to sector. However, for the manufacturing industry as a whole, TFP was approximately the same for foreign and domestic rms for the period 1994–1996.