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Firm size distribution and employment fluctuations : theory and evidence

Görg, Holger; Henze, Philipp; Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj - 2016

This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in industries characterised by a distribution that is more...

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms’ international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010

international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are …

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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? : evidence from Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Hornok, … - 2020

We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel, a comprehensive dataset of manufacturing firms for 2011-2015. Uniquely, the data provides information about the severity of key business constraints, across both male and...

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Management practices and productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. …

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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger (contributor); Greenaway, David (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals : measurement matters!

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2009

. -- Multinationals ; backward spillovers ; productivity spillovers …

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Suppliers of multinationals and the forced linkage effect : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger - 2013

productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …. -- backward linkages ; multinational customers ; suppliers ; forced linkage ; productivity spillovers …

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Trust-based work-time and product improvements : evidence from firm level data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014

We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … located at different quantiles of the productivity distribution by using conditional quantile regression. Overall, while there … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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