We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

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