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. 2021 May 29;28(40):56345–56362. doi: 10.1007/s11356-021-14614-x

Table 2.

Unconditional correlations between main variables

Correlation TFP TFPc EP1 EP2 EP3 EP4 EP5 EP6 Cap HC Trade FDI
TFP 1.000
TFPc 0.138 1.000
p value 0.000
EP1 −0.022 −0.489 1.000
p value 0.566 0.000
EP2 −0.007 −0.499 0.829 1.000
p value 0.847 0.000 0.000
EP3 −0.015 −0.446 0.787 0.946 1.000
p value 0.701 0.000 0.000 0.000
EP4 0.003 −0.394 0.704 0.925 0.820 1.000
p value 0.928 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
EP5 0.260 0.180 −0.188 −0.152 −0.131 −0.128 1.000
p value 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.001
EP6 0.113 0.460 −0.833 −0.729 −0.727 −0.615 0.423 1.000
p value 0.004 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
Cap −0.319 −0.236 −0.123 −0.056 −0.084 −0.028 0.173 0.154 1.000
p value 0.000 0.000 0.001 0.132 0.028 0.457 0.000 0.000
HC −0.038 0.391 −0.723 −0.806 −0.731 −0.723 0.081 0.674 0.071 1.000
p value 0.310 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.042 0.000 0.057
Trade −0.036 −0.008 −0.060 −0.025 0.034 −0.084 0.073 0.130 0.244 0.051 1.000
p value 0.336 0.831 0.122 0.507 0.374 0.024 0.066 0.001 0.000 0.174
FDI 0.028 −0.088 0.027 0.104 0.142 0.104 −0.068 −0.006 −0.092 −0.121 0.315 1.000
p value 0.448 0.018 0.492 0.005 0.000 0.005 0.086 0.890 0.014 0.001 0.000