Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24335 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 99-53
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected branches. Moreover, allowing for simultaneity we find that export activities do not enforce innovation activities.
Subjects: 
exports
innovation
service sector
firm behaviour
applied microeconometrics
JEL: 
L80
C53
O31
F14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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