policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for … between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …

, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …

reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …

-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

probability of exporting and the export intensity of these firms. The empirical specification is represented through a country … foreign ownership, information and communication technology, and firm size on the probability of exporting and on export … production workers and in terms of non-production workers tend to exert negative effects on firms' propensity to export. The …

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …