sector, it is their initial productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic … productivity growth. We test this hypothesis using firm level data for German and Italian companies during the 90's and we find …

European productivity shock. e focus lies on the national and county level (including 402 counties). As the e ects on regional … that the "Hartz IV-Reform" and the German productivity contributes positively to the decline of unemployment, whereas the … increase in Eastern European productivity is only responsible for a minor increase in unemployment. …

This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …

This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports … years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports …

productivity. We employ a unique dataset on East and West German scientists' publications in fields of science, technology …' connections to their peers, their scientific productivity and impact as measured by the number of publications, citation … German peers in all productivity accounts. We use the overlap of each East German scientist's research portfolio with the …

I investigate the relationship between the extensive margins of imports and exports (the number of countries traded … with and the number of goods traded) and firm productivity using a newly constructed and rich panel data set of German … significantly and positively associated with firm-level productivity both for West and East German firms in cross …