Unternehmensnahe Dienstleistungen, Export, Paneldaten, business services, export, panel data … productivity in the manufacturing sector. By contrast, a detailed investigation of the services sector has remained largely … the German business services sector—average wage, productivity, size and turnover profitability—in order to determine …

This thesis investigates whether Chinese firms improve their productivity through export and why this is the case …; whether export and R&D investment have a complementary effect on improving firm performance; how to identify the dynamics of … firms in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. The evidence in chapter 2 does not support that export leads to higher …