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:	2007-03
Authors:	Wagner, Joachim
Institutions:	Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	exports \| micro data \| West Germany \| East Germany

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	IZA Discussion Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 2656 10 pages
Classification:	F14 - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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