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Export Productivity and Specialisation: A Disaggregated Analysis
Author(s) -
SantosPaulino Amelia U.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the world economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.594
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1467-9701
pISSN - 0378-5920
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9701.2010.01276.x
Subject(s) - productivity , economics , per capita income , china , human capital , per capita , capital (architecture) , product (mathematics) , econometrics , international trade , international economics , agricultural economics , macroeconomics , economic growth , geography , mathematics , population , demography , archaeology , sociology , geometry
The paper analyses export productivity and trade specialisation in China, Brazil, India and South Africa. The investigation calculates a time‐varying export productivity measure using highly disaggregated product categories. The modelling shows that export productivity is determined by real income and human capital endowments. But the empirical analysis also reveals significant differences in export productivity and specialisation for countries with comparable per capita income levels.