Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity … relative minor influence of intra-firm wage inequality on firm productivity. If anything, they provide some support for a view … suggesting that some inequality may be beneficial, while too much leads to a detrimental effect on productivity. …

A wide range of empirical studies has analysed the relationship between exports and productivity in the manufacturing … provides first evidence about export and productivity in the German business services sector. The database used is the German … exporting increases productivity. -- Export ; productivity ; business services ; panel data …

no productivity improvements for the period 2007 to 2009. This evidence contradicts existing empirical studies for … Germany which find significant productivity improvements and no changes in terms of employment. These findings are of …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a “clean” sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991 …/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different … influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …