improvements in productivity. However, there is little evidence to indicate that UK manufacturing SMEs are prepared for the …

international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

international division of labour. We concentrate on the question, to what extent they have caught up with the productivity level of … their Western counterparts of similar size and sector and how this productivity difference is related to changes in their … product policy. We analyse these questions with a unique data set provided by Statistics Germany that contains both product …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available … panel of exporting establishments from the manufacturing sector of Germany from 1995 to 2004 to test three hypotheses … results for West Germany support all three hypotheses, this is only the case for (H1) and (H2) in East Germany. …