Services Development and Comparative Advantage in Manufacturing

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Table 3A

Table 3A: Robustness check (1), alternative measure of services development (services value added per worker)

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Df

 

0.050

(0.076)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Df*SIIf

3.667**

 

 

3.992**

 

 

 

(1.690)

 

 

(1.948)

 

 

Db

 

 

 

0.106

(0.068)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Db*SIIb

 

1.237**

 

 

1.247**

 

 

 

(0.574)

 

 

(0.621)

 

Dfb

 

 

 

 

 

0.132*

(0.079)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dfb*SIIfb

 

 

1.125**

 

 

1.160**

 

 

 

(0.457)

 

 

(0.504)

log(GDP/capita)

-0.221

-0.320**

-0.428**

 

 

 

 

(0.168)

(0.163)

(0.170)

 

 

 

TFP

0.069***

0.062***

0.063***

0.063**

0.062**

0.062**

 

(0.022)

(0.021)

(0.021)

(0.029)

(0.029)

(0.029)

log(emp)

0.937***

0.934***

0.939***

0.953***

0.950***

0.955***

 

(0.093)

(0.092)

(0.093)

(0.100)

(0.099)

(0.100)

SKratio

0.586

0.512

0.514

0.788

0.708

0.689

 

(0.629)

(0.630)

(0.629)

(0.823)

(0.822)

(0.823)

K/L

0.069***

0.068***

0.069***

0.070***

0.069***

0.070***

 

(0.026)

(0.025)

(0.025)

(0.026)

(0.025)

(0.026)

rwage

-0.002

-0.000

-0.000

-0.001

-0.001

-0.001

 

(0.007)

(0.007)

(0.007)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.008)

GVC Participation

2.428***

2.433***

2.425***

2.530***

2.512***

2.506***

 

(0.445)

(0.443)

(0.442)

(0.495)

(0.490)

(0.490)

Country FEs

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

Sector FEs

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

Year FEs

Yes

Yes

Yes

 

 

 

Country*Year FEs

 

 

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Sector*Year FEs

 

 

 

Yes

Yes

Yes

Observations

5,674

5,674

5,674

5,674

5,674

5,674

R-squared

0.573

0.574

0.576

0.591

0.591

0.592

Notes: The dependent variable is manufacturing export RCA. Df (Db) refers to the share of financial (business) services value added per worker. Dfb is the services value added per worker for both financial and business services sectors combined. SIIf (SIIb) is the ratio of the U.S. embodied domestic financial (business) services to U.S.’ manufacturing value added, averaged over 1995-2007. SIIfb is the combined measure for both financial and business services. All WIOD manufacturing sectors 3-16 are covered (not grouped together). Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered by country*sector. *** p<0.01, ** p<0.05, * p<0.1.