Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub-Saharan Africa. Using a cross-section sample of 3090 firms in 19 countries, we find that importers are more productive than non-importers. The observed importer premium is found to...