provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German … business services enterprises self-select into export markets. However, no evidence is found concerning the hypotheses that …

Westdeutschland, aber höher als in Ostdeutschland. In Niedersachsen wie im übrigen Westdeutschland und in Ostdeutschland gilt, dass im …

domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …

of services on productivity for firms not operating on the export market. …

To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct …

In the course of increasing internationalisation of the German economy, growth in export can also be expected for the … German service sector. However, there has only been limited information about the export behaviour of German service … companies so far. This gap can be closed to some extent by statistics existing since 2000. This study confirms that export …

Unternehmen gibt es - anders als bei den sehr kleinen - besonders viele, die in diesen Jahren erstmals mit dem Export begonnen …

, stems from the experience of doing it. Therefore, different employers immensely contend for managers’ highly valuable export …