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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416940
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884332
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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
subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103259
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Do Foreign Experts Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325421
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Why Ex(Im)porters Pay More: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325442
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Robust Estimation of Linear Fixed Effects Panel Data Models with an Application to the Exporter Productivity Premium
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses – conclusions based on a sample with and without these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506086
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond: First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568260
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Comparing Real Wage Rates
Ashenfelter, Orley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884346
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Using the Helmert-Transformation to Reduce Dimensionality in a Mixed Model: Application to a Wage Equation with Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Skjerpen, Terje - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
A model for matched data with two types of unobserved heterogeneity is considered – one related to the observation unit, the other to units to which the observation units are matched. One or both of the unobserved components are assumed to be random. This mixed model allows identification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216761
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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Cortes, Kalena E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703811