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significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
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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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This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach. …
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In Germany, for the reporting year 2009 transaction-level data on exports and imports of goods have been aggregated at …
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. Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, is a case in point. Theoretical models of multiple …
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Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of cannibalizing sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is no...
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Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
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manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
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