Arbeitspapier
Why more West than East German firms export
Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Jena Economic Research Papers ; No. 2007,027
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Trade
- Subject
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Exports
micro data
West Germany
East Germany
Exportindustrie
Verarbeitendes Gewerbe
Vergleich
Betriebsgröße
Humankapital
Alte Bundesländer
Neue Bundesländer
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Wagner, Joachim
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
- (where)
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Jena
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
Data provider
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Wagner, Joachim
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena and Max Planck Institute of Economics
Time of origin
- 2007