TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Wagner, Joachim
        TI  - Why More West than East German Firms Export
        PY  - 2007/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2656
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2656
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - West Germany
KW  - micro data
KW  - exports
KW  - East Germany
        ER  -