Exports , wages , exporter wage premium , linked employer-employee data , Germany … same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. -- firm …