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

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

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

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Age-specific rise of income and consumption inequality

Zhu, Guozhong - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Based on Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX), the author presents evidence that the rise of income/consumption inequality over the past decades is more significant among younger households. This is consistent with the theory that the secular rise of...

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger; Görlich, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

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Offshoring and Labour Market Inequalities

Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper estimates the effects of offshoring on labour market inequalities between skill groups based on German industry level data from 1995 to 2007. Our main findings are the following: First, offshoring is on average biased in favour of high-skilled employees and in disfavour of low-skilled...

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European trade with lower-income countries and the relative wages of the unskilled: an exploratory analysis for West Germany and the UK

Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

This paper develops a Heckscher-Ohlin-type framework in which relative factor prices are affected by output prices as well as by total factor productivity growth. The empirical analysis finds no evidence that the relative prices of unskilled-labour- intensive manufactures, adjusted for total...

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Globalisation and Employment in the EU Electrical Industry: A Case Study with Emphasis on Germany

Diehl, Markus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...

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International Trade in Intermediate Inputs: The Case of the Automobile Industry

Diehl, Markus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

International trade statistics and input-output tables are analyzed in order to test the hypothesis that international production networks have become more relevant. The share of imported inputs in the gross output value of the motor vehicle industry has grown significantly during the last two...

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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?

Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balász - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for …: first, firms may export different quality versions of the same product to different markets. Secondly, directly exporting …

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Guidelines for the Use of Household Interview Duration Analysis in CAPI Survey Management

Böhme, Marcus; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

This paper provides evidence based guidance for practical survey work, namely choosing interviewers and their workload. Analyzing a survey of 3568 households obtained through computer assisted personal interviews (CAPI) we find that interviewers learn considerably while the survey progresses....

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Noise and Bias in Eliciting Preferences

Hey, John D.; Morone, Andrea; Schmidt, Ulrich - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

In the context of eliciting preferences for decision making under risk, we ask the question: “which might be the ‘best’ method for eliciting such preferences?”. It is well known that different methods differ in terms of the bias in the elicitation; it is rather less well-known that...

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