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Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Exports and productivity in Germany
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1234
Handle20.500.14123/1297
CreatorWagner, Joachim  0000-0001-6058-4536  129798215
AbstractUsing unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It applies and extends the now standard approach from the international literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant, and substantial, even when observed firm characteristics and unobserved firm specific effects are controlled for. For West German plants (but not for East German plants) some empirical evidence for self-selection of more productive firms into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in the three years after the start than their counterparts which do not start to sell their products on the world market. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at starting time fail as a successful exporter in the years after the start, and only those that were more productive at starting time continue to export.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsExport; Productivity; Micro Data; Germany; Export; Produktivität; Personenbezogene Daten; Deutschland
Year of publication in PubData2007
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2007-04-02
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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