TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fernandes,Ana Margarida
AU  - Isgut,Alberto E jtauthor
ED  - World Bank.
TI  - Learning-by-doing, learning-by-exporting, and productivity: evidence from Colombia 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Washington, D. C
PB  - World Bank
KW  - Exports
KW  - Colombia
KW  - Industrial productivity
N1  - Also available online; "The empirical evidence on whether participation in export markets increases plant-level productivity has been inconclusive so far.  The authors explain this inconclusiveness by drawing on Arrow's (1972) characterization of learning-by-doing, which suggests focusing on young plants and using measures of export experience rather than export participation.  They find strong evidence of learning-by-exporting for young Colombian manufacturing plants between 1981 and 1991: total factor productivity increases 4-5 percent for each additional year a plant has  exported , after controlling for the effect of plant of current exports on total factor productivity.  Learning-by-exporting is more important for young than for old plants and in industries that deliver a larger percentage of their exports to high-income countries."-World Bank web site; Includes bibliographical references; Open access
ER  -