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Exports, Imports and Profitability:First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three typesof international trade activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique newrepresentative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actorson the world market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353911
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Exports and Firm Characteristics inGerman Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
betweenfirm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capitalintensity for exporting. (3) It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360574
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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360584
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The Exporter Productivity Premium along theProductivity Distribution: First Evidence from aQuantile Regression Approach for Fixed EffectsPanel Data Models
Powel, David; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents thatexporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. Thispositive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies aftercontrolling for observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360586
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Searching for the Entrepreneurial Personality:New Evidence and Avenues for Further Research
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Economic Psychology on “Personality and Entrepreneurship”.The contributions are clustered around questions regarding the … entrepreneurship research.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353909
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Entrepreneurship, Economic Conditions,and the Great Recession
Fairlie, Robert - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
opportunities in the wage/salary sectorleaving the net effect on entrepreneurship ambiguous. The most up-to-date microdataavailable … entrepreneurship at the individual level to shed lighton this question. Regression estimates indicate that local labor market … conditions are a majordeterminant of entrepreneurship. Higher local unemployment rates are found to increase theprobability that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360519
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs toCreate Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types ofentrepreneurship across …. We test these hypotheses using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor surveys in55 countries for 2001-2006, applying a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360546
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Personal Bankruptcy Law, Wealth andEntrepreneurship: Theory and Evidencefrom the Introduction of a “Fresh Start”
Fossen, Frank M. - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
, lenders may charge higherinterest rates or ration credit supply, which can hamper entrepreneurship. Both aspects of amore … entrepreneurship.... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360549
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Trust, Positive Reciprocity, and Negative Reciprocity:Do These Traits Impact Entrepreneurial Dynamics?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in bothpositively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variablesof social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurswho are permanently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360565
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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance a Barrier toEntrepreneurship?
Fairlie, Robert W.; Kapur, Kanika; Gates, Susan - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
limited research on the topic of “entrepreneurship lock” by usingrecent panel data from matched Current Population Surveys. We … ownership in the month individuals turn 65. Our estimatesprovide some evidence that “entrepreneurship lock” exists, which raises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360577