This paper examines the labor productivity gap between exporting and non-exporting Vietnamese manufacturing firms in industrialization during the period from 2010 to 2016 using enterprise-level panel data drawn from Vietnamese Annual Enterprise Censuses. | Labor productivity gap between export and non-exporting firms in industrialization The case of the Vietnamese manufacturing sector Accounting 6 2020 509 524 Contents lists available at GrowingScience Accounting homepage ac Labor productivity gap between export and non-exporting firms in industrialization The case of the Vietnamese manufacturing sector Huu Trinh Nguyena Thi Minh Thy Leb Thi Mai Huong Dangc Thanh Cuong Nguyend Trung Dung Dange and Van Dai Lea aSchool of Political and Administrative Sciences Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam bCollege of Foreign Economic Relations Vietnam cHanoi Metropolitan University Vietnam dAn Tinh Ward Trang Bang District Tay Ninh Province Vietnam eViet Nam General Confederation of Labour Vietnam CHRONICLE ABSTRACT Article history This paper examines the labor productivity gap between exporting and non-exporting Vietnamese Received March 1 2020 manufacturing firms in industrialization during the period from 2010 to 2016 using enterprise-level Received in revised format March panel data drawn from Vietnamese Annual Enterprise Censuses. Results show that the labor 30 2020 productivity of the manufacturing sectors increased during the study period. It can be concluded that Accepted April 11 2020 Available online the firms productivity contributed to the current industrialization in Vietnam. On top of that some April 11 2020 manufacturing sectors with increasing labor productivity in the study period namely Fabricated metal Keywords products code 25 Basic metals code 24 Motor vehicles trailers and semi-trailers code 29 Labor productivity Computer electronic and optical products code 26 Leather and related products code 15 Productivity gap Machinery and equipment not yet classified code 28 Furniture code 31 Electrical equipment code Industrialization 27 Other non-metallic mineral products code 23 Other transport equipment code 30 Wearing The manufacturing sector apparel code 14 and .
