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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770907
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Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the enterprise level for Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It documents that the positive profitability differential of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771833
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003323169
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The erosion of union membership in Germany : determinants, densities, decompositions
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006
Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of Chamberlain-Mundlack correlated random effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003344603
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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemploymed in West Germany
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2006
Long-term public sector sponsored training programs often show little or negative short-run employment effects and often it is not possible to assess whether positive long-run effects exist. Based on unique administrative data, this paper estimates the long-run differential employment effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003338016
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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function
Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006
The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319677
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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003480022
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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored box-cox quantile regression at work
Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor);  … - 2007
In light of nonstationary search theory (van den Berg, 1990), this paper estimates the effects of benefit entitlement periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post{unemployment earnings in West Germany. For the unemployment duration, we estimate censored...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435417
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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010
Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008665400
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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592053