exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …

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 …

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

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

/2002, which includes information on 12,757 employees in the Netherlands. We find that workers in these particular subindustries of …

This article reviews empirical evidence on the early tracking system in Germany and the educational inequalities …