Wirtschaftspolitik und ihr soll in dieser Arbeit nachgegangen werden. -- export-led growth ; trade ; productivity ; firm heterogeneity …

Following reunification, productivity in eastern Germany grew rapidly. A strong industrial sector is key to a thriving … German economy. However, the narrowing of the industrial productivity gap between eastern and western Germany has come to a … regions in eastern and western Germany, the productivity gap shrinks. In both eastern German cities as well as rural areas …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

dispersion in revenue productivity should not be dismissed as mere artifacts of misspecification or measurement errors …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …