Why more West than East German firms export

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.

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Wagner, Joachim
Publisher:	Jena : Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
Subject:	Exportindustrie \| Verarbeitendes Gewerbe \| Vergleich \| Betriebsgröße \| Humankapital \| Alte Bundesländer \| Neue Bundesländer \| Deutschland \| Exports \| micro data \| West Germany \| East Germany

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Series:	Jena Economic Research Papers ; 2007,027
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	547199961 [GVK] hdl:10419/25647 [Handle]
Classification:	F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
Source:	EconStor

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