Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24939 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policy No. 1407
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Exports
productivity
micro data
Germany
JEL: 
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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