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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries

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

This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....

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The Persistent Decline in Unionization in Western and Eastern Germany, 1980-2004: What Can We Learn from a Decomposition Analysis?

Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

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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

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

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Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

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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

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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