Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Sample overview

From: Broadband internet availability and establishments’ employment growth in Germany: evidence from instrumental variables estimations

	Western Germany		Eastern Germany
	IV = 0	IV = 1	Eastern Germany
Municipality-year obs.	6820 (62.6%)	4081 (37.4%)	9602
Municipalities	1482 (62.4%)	893 (37.6%)	2085
Establishment-year obs.	21,708 (64.9%)	11,765 (35.1%)	78,354
Establishments	5449 (64.8%)	2956 (35.2%)	19,758
Mean DSL availability^a	0.893	0.817	0.742

^aMeasured at the municipality-year level. Data sources: Broadband Atlas Germany, Deutsche Telekom, BHP 7510

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