TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Wagner, Joachim
        TI  - Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
        PY  - 2007/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2661
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2661
        AB  - Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to countries outside the euro-zone, too. This is in line with the hypothesis that export markets outside the euro-zone have higher entry costs that can only by paid by more productive firms.
        KW  - exports
KW  - productivity
KW  - Germany
KW  - micro data
        ER  -