Working PaperFirst publicationPublished version DOI: 10.48548/pubdata-1235

Why more west than east German firms export

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Date of first publication2007-04-02
Date of publication in PubData 2024-08-23

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English

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Part of ISSN: 1860-5508
Working paper series in economics

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Abstract

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

Keywords

Export; Micro Data; West Germany; East Germany; Export; Personenbezogene Daten; Westdeutschland; Ostdeutschland

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42

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330 :: Wirtschaft

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