Productivity and size of the export market

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"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"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.

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Series Statement

• Discussion paper -- no. 2661
• Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2661

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• http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/publications/papers/viewAbstract?dp_id=2661