Why more West than East German fimrs export

Joachim Wagner

No 42, Working Paper Series in Economics from University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics

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: Exports; micro data; West Germany; East Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2007-03
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