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"This paper makes three contributions to the literature on the effects of collective bargaining on the performance of German establishments. We include the analysis of firms' efficiency and we model productivity and efficiency simultaneously. Confronted with 25 % observations with missing...
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and export exposure. We find that the rise of 'the East' in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …
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, but also in the lower export rates of the smaller establishments. The data also show that the rise in employment in 2010 …
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"The internationally coordinated IAB research project ReLOC - Research on Locational and Organisational Change - investigates the impact of direct investments of German firms in the Czech Republic on the labor markets in both countries. The analysis focuses on the effects of these cross-border...
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"Theoretical and empirical contributions on export behavior highlight the importance of firms' productivity and their … levels of economies of scale on firms' export success in 'foreign' markets. In the context of agglomeration economies, firms … interaction of distinct knowledge and related problem-solving abilities increases productivity and secures export success. In this …
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"In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the … measures that are free of skill composition. We find that rent-sharing is less pronounced in more export intensive firms or in …
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and export exposure. We find that the rise of 'the East' in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …
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model with exogenous export values and import prices. In a globalised world such an exercise is critical, since the policy … in question may change the export prices and the import volumes of the particular country and induce via international … trade a change of the economic activities of the global economy and a feed back to the export values and import prices of …
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"In theoretical trade models with variable markups and collective wage bargaining, export exposure may reduce the … measures that are free of skill composition. We find that rent-sharing is less pronounced in more export intensive firms or in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641643
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm-productivity: i) only the most productive firms … export to low-income countries, ii) exporting to low-income countries is mostly coupled to exporting to high-income countries …, and iii) firms that switch to export to markets with higher potential are younger than firms that switch to export to both …
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