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: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 2656
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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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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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2007
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2008041657
- Last update
- 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Wagner, Joachim
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2007