Learning-by-Exporting? Firm-Level Evidence for UK Manufacturing and Services Sectors



Unpublished appendix

Table S1 (unpublished): Determinants of exporting by industries, UK 1996-2004 (cf, Equation 3)

Industries:

Independent variables: —

____________AGF__________

_____________FBT_____________

___________TCL__________

p/ x

z-value

Means

p/ x

z-value

Means

p/ x

z-value

Means

10-19 employees (t-1)

-0.058

-2.58

0.178

-0.113

-3.45

0.207

0.192

6.01

0.152

20-49 employees (t-1)

0.296

8.42

0.131

-0.100

-3.26

0.308

0.442

19.66

0.283

50-199 employees (t-1)

0.316

9.35

0.172

0.138

3.92

0.223

0.503

25.22

0.273

200+ employees (t-1)

0.557

12.93

0.073

0.280

6.57

0.121

0.419

28.08

0.108

ln labour productivity (t-1)

0.030

3.89

4.030

0.137

11.76

4.043

0.214

14.82

3.969

Intangible assets (t-1) >0

-0.043

-1.95

0.126

0.142

5.02

0.220

0.109

2.94

0.103

ln age (t-1)

0.076

7.74

2.921

0.008

0.68

2.801

0.062

5.16

2.912

North East

-0.160

-14.66

0.031

-0.153

-2.63

0.044

0.232

2.68

0.007

Yorkshire-Humberside

-0.101

-4.94

0.047

-0.041

-0.85

0.097

0.329

11.18

0.100

North West

-0.162

-14.68

0.048

0.115

1.98

0.060

0.114

2.26

0.146

West Midlands

-0.159

-14.36

0.046

0.570

15.16

0.090

0.222

5.25

0.112

East Midlands

-0.068

-3.63

0.132

0.149

2.61

0.066

0.330

10.65

0.144

South West

-0.166

-13.98

0.093

0.185

3.30

0.074

0.316

9.66

0.026

Eastern England

-0.159

-11.77

0.176

0.157

3.02

0.092

-0.011

-0.13

0.035

London

-0.101

-5.47

0.065

0.083

1.86

0.237

0.302

8.10

0.222

Scotland

-0.124

-8.55

0.087

0.118

2.40

0.113

0.159

3.23

0.132

Wales

-0.145

-12.25

0.022

-0.100

-1.68

0.038

0.297

8.27

0.021

Northern Ireland

_

_

_

0.487

1.82

0.001

-0.259

-1.42

0.003

No. of Obs.

2303

2522

2487

Notes: Refer to Table 2 for details of industry group codes. p/ x are marginal effects for each independent variable on the propensity to export (for binary
variables, these are the effects of a discrete change from 0 to 1) and their corresponding
Z statistics. Missing results for any region (e.g. Northern Ireland) is due to
too few observations (leading to estimation problems); the South East region comprises the benchmark. SIC industry dummies were included but not reported in the
table.

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