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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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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923926

The post-entry performance of cohorts of export starters in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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Exports, imports and firm survival : first evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379657

Foreign ownership and firm survival : first evidence for enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...

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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly...

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Lingering illness or sudden death? : pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...

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The German manufacturing sector is a granular economy

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...

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The long awaited reform of the German Works Constitution Act

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

German law guaranteeing works councils is not a datum. The thrust of legislation has changed significantly on a number of occasions since 1920. The most recent legal change in the form of the Works Constitution Reform Act marks a controversial swing in favor of works council formation and...

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Works councils : sand or grease in the operation of German firms

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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