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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time...

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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771833

Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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Gielen, Anne C. (contributor); Kerkhofs, Marcel (contributor) - 2006

This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labor productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labor productivity at the firm level with about 9% and employment with about 5%. -- performance related pay ; labor productivity

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Age, wage and productivity

Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

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Market imperfections and firm-sponsored training

Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2010

Recent human capital theories predict that labor market frictions and product market competition influence firm-sponsored training. Using matched worker-firm data from Dutch manufacturing, our paper empirically assesses the validity of these predictions. We find that a decrease in labor market...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

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Offshoring and firm performance : self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad...

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