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German Firms in International Trade : Evidence from Recent Microdata

Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

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Financial Development and Export Concentration

Unger, Florian - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …

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Famdata : Database for Family Business Companies in Germany Covering Company Key Figures and Survey Data

Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches containing structural and financial information. The ifo Institute assembled a business panel with executives from almost 4,000 companies. In addition to the “hard” business...

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Age, wage and productivity

van Ours, Jan C.; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...

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Earnings Dynamics in Germany

Pessoa, Ana Sofia - 2021

This paper documents earnings dynamics over the life-cycle and income level using a large administrative database from German tax records. I find that labor earnings display important deviations from the typical assumptions of linearity and normality. For the bottom earners, large income changes...

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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...

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Worker Beliefs About Outside Options

Jäger, Simon; Roth, Christopher; Roussille, Nina; … - 2022

Workers wrongly anchor their beliefs about outside options on their current wage. In particular, low-paid workers underestimate wages elsewhere. We document this anchoring bias by eliciting workers’ beliefs in a representative survey in Germany and comparing them to measures of actual outside...

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State visits and international trade

Nitsch, Volker - 2005

Politicians travel extensively abroad, for various reasons. One purpose of external visits is to improve bilateral economic relations. In this paper, I examine the effect of state visits on international trade. I use a large data set covering the travel activities of the heads of state of...

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Firms' Exports, Volatility and Skills : Evidence from France

Bas, Maria - 2019

’ export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … 1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics

Mrazova, Monika - 2019

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...

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