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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103259

Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels

Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

import as well as the export activity of the firm. These two innovations allow us to avoid large biases that characterized … recent theories that aim at explaining participation both in export and import markets and at including non …

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The Microstructure of the Great Export Collapse in German Manufacturing Industries, 2008/2009

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …

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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity: Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

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International Trade and Firm Performance: A Survey of Empirical Studies since 2006

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...

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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …

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Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...

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