Title: Why more West than East German firms export
Description: "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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Subjects: Exports
Places: Germany (West), Germany (East)