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Abstract
Estimates based on robust regression methods show that the level of labour productivity of exporting small- and medium-sized entreprises (SMEs) is 13 percentage points higher than that of nonexporting ones in a given industry and country. The data are based on the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for 19 European countries with about 110 000 firms for the year 2010. The exporter productivity premium is highest in manufacturing, and professional and business services. Furthermore, SMEs that export to both the European and non-European markets exhibit a 19% higher level of labour productivity than nonexporting firms.
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Acknowledgements
We would like to thank the participants of the European Competitiveness Report 2014 workshop in Brussels for helpful comments. This work is carried out within the Framework Service Contract N° ENTR/2009/033.
The permission to publish the regression results has been obtained from Geneviève Villette (European Commission – DG Eurostat Unit G4: Innovation and information society) on 13 March 2014 and from Tomas Brännström (European Commission – DG Enterprise) 23 October 2014. The views presented here are those of the authors solely and do not represent any institution.