Table 7

OLS and 2SLS regressions for business and investment climate in Tunisia

Panel A: OLSDV: Logarithm of value addedDV: Labour productivityDV: Logarithm of TFPPanel B: IVDV: Logarithm of value addedDV: Labour productivityDV: Logarithm of TFP
Business climate−0.1553** (0.0775)−0.1356 (0.1061)−0.0337** (0.0142)Business climate−0.2348** (0.1102)−0.2405 (0.1820)−0.1095** (0.0473)
Logarithm of firm size0.7963*** (0.0519)−0.3452*** (0.0772)−0.3012*** (0.1128)Logarithm of firm size0.7756*** (0.0528)−0.3135*** (0.0836)−0.2549** (0.1102)
Young firms0.3137 (0.2181)0.1371 (0.2996)0.2776 (0.3632)Young firms0.1095 (0.2209)0.2302 (0.3600)0.3002 (0.3473)
Is one of the owners female? (Yes)−0.1083 (0.1254)0.1031 (0.1817)0.2429 (0.2336)Is one of the owners female? (Yes)−0.1092 (0.1252)0.1056 (0.1965)0.2392 (0.2098)
Manager's years of experience0.0045 (0.0056)−0.0064 (0.0092)0.0305*** (0.0162)Manager's years of experience0.0036 (0.0056)−0.0070 (0.0096)0.0347** (0.0150)
International quality assurance qualification (Yes)0.5755*** (0.1460)0.9365*** (0.2795)0.6566** (0.2879)International quality assurance qualification (Yes)0.5426*** (0.1446)1.0938*** (0.2176)0.7241** (0.3189)
Is the firm part of another establishment? (Yes)−0.1056 (0.1880)−0.1616 (0.2670)−0.3192 (0.3386)Is the firm part of another establishment? (Yes)−0.0934 (0.1834)−0.2269 (0.2007)−0.3866 (0.4339)
Firm status (public owned)0.0058 (0.0100)−0.2084*** (0.0751)0.0055 (0.0321)Firm status (public owned)0.0055 (0.0098)−0.1882** (0.0860)0.0097 (0.0309)
No. observations391301172No. observations391312175
R-square0.71230.64710.7453Centered R-Square0.59150.23970.1275
    Weak identification test18.158 [0.000]18.985 [0.000]9.030 [0.0014]
    Hansen J statistic4.686 [0.2336]5.009 [0.1711]5.987 [0.3220]

Note(s): Standard errors within brackets, p-values within the square brackets, *** and ** indicate significance respectively at the 1 and 5% level. The period of analysis is 2013

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