| ID | 170084 |
| Title Proper | Technological catching-up between two ASEAN members and China |
| Other Title Information | a metafrontier approach |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Chiu, Chung-Yueh |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | 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. |
| `In' analytical Note | China Economic Review , No.54; Apr 2019: p.12-25 |
| Journal Source | China Economic Review 2019-04 |
| Key Words | ASEAN ; China ; Productivity ; Metafrontier ; Catch-Up |