markets affects the relative productivity of firms across the region. Firms with foreign ownership and firms that export are … firm characteristics available in the database to explore the sources of export firms' greater productivity. We argue that … it is in aiming for export markets that firms make decisions that raise productivity. It is not simply that more …

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less … the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … the export market, are more productive than nonexporters. These patterns are consistent with the view that both the …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … participate in the export market. The investment decisions depend on the expected future profitability and the fixed and sunk … plants is the dominant channel driving participation in the export market and Ramp;D investment. Both Ramp;D and exporting …

Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in Ramp;D and/or worker training. We focus on …. The firm's decisions to export and invest in Ramp;D and/or worker training are modeled with a bivariate probit model that …. The primary empirical findings are that, on average, firms that export but do not invest in Ramp;D and/or worker training …

This paper analyzes the properties of the Taiwan mechanism, used for high school placement nationwide starting in 2014 …. In the Taiwan mechanism, points are deducted from an applicant's score with larger penalties for lower ranked choices … light on why Taiwan's new mechanism has led to massive nationwide demonstrations and why it nonetheless still remains in use …

Most explanations of Korea's and Taiwan's economic growth since the early 1960s place heavy emphasis on export … orientation. However, it is difficult to see how export orientation could have played a significant causal role in these countries … the phenomenal export boom that ensued. Moreover, exports were initially too small to have a significant effect on …

form of higher labor supply per capita and how Taiwan benefited through increased savings rates. We emphasize, however …

We evaluate the endogenous growth hypothesis using sectoral data for South Korea and Taiwan. Our empirical work relies …. We test whether changes in the variety of these inputs, for Taiwan relative to Korea, are correlated with the growth in … total factor productivity (TFP) in each sector, again measured in Taiwan relative to Korea. We find that changes in relative …