Sector Switching: An Unexplored Dimension of Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries



Table E: COMPARISON BETWEEN INTRA-MANUFACTURING
and Service Sector Switchers

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)          (6)

Firm specific variables

Relative efficiency (weighted)

Firm size (log)

Firm age (log)

State owned enterprise (SOE)

Foreign owned firm (Multinational)

-44.7841**

(2.44)

-45.4567**

(2.44)

-6.5822
(0.74)
-0.1186***
(7.16)
0.0132
(0.43)

-6.2422

(1.16)

-0.1235***

(7.18)
0.0139
(0.43)

-0.9871    -1.1072

(0.12)      (0.13)

-0.1136*** -0.1196***

(6.73)      (6.81)

0.0078    0.0065

(0.25)      (0.20)

0.0394    0.0788

(0.37)      (0.72)

-0.2253*** -0.2330***

(3.46)      (3.53)

Province dummies

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes      Yes

Sector dummies________________

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes______Yes

Observations

1,076

1,045

1,076

1,045

1,076      1,045

Pseudo R-squared________________

0.16

0.17

0.19

0.21

0.20       0.22

Note: Dependent variable: Switching to the tertiary sector (SER). Pooled probit estimates - marginal effects. All estimations included
a constant term and time dummies. t-values (reported in parenthesis) are heteroskedasticity robust. *, **, *** indicate significance at a
10%, 5% and 1% level, respectively.

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