TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological catching-up between two ASEAN members and China
T2 - A metafrontier approach
AU - Chiu, Chung Yueh
AU - Lin, Chang Ching
AU - Yang, Chih Hai
N1 - Funding Information:
Chih-Hai Yang gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan ( NSC102-2410-H-008-005-MY3 ). Helpful comments and suggestions from referees and participants in seminar at University of Da Nang, Vietnam are highly appreciated. We are responsible for all errors.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/4
Y1 - 2019/4
N2 - This paper examines the dynamics of the productivity gaps across Indonesia, Vietnam, and China. Based on establishment-level panel datasets in the textile and electronics industries for the period 2000–2007, empirical results obtained from the meta-frontier approach show that there is a technological falling-behind rather than catching-up between Indonesia and China, as well as between Vietnam and China. This widening gap is witnessed in both the labor-intensive textile industry and the capital-intensive electronics industry, because China has experienced faster productivity growth and has upgraded its technological frontier after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. A comparison of the two latecomers finds that Indonesia firms exhibit better productivity performance than do Vietnamese firms.
AB - This paper examines the dynamics of the productivity gaps across Indonesia, Vietnam, and China. Based on establishment-level panel datasets in the textile and electronics industries for the period 2000–2007, empirical results obtained from the meta-frontier approach show that there is a technological falling-behind rather than catching-up between Indonesia and China, as well as between Vietnam and China. This widening gap is witnessed in both the labor-intensive textile industry and the capital-intensive electronics industry, because China has experienced faster productivity growth and has upgraded its technological frontier after joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001. A comparison of the two latecomers finds that Indonesia firms exhibit better productivity performance than do Vietnamese firms.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chieco.2018.09.012
DO - 10.1016/j.chieco.2018.09.012
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85056157822
VL - 54
SP - 12
EP - 25
JO - China Economic Review
JF - China Economic Review
SN - 1043-951X
ER -