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subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany …We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate …
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We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...
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We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export …
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In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour … dependent on Russia as an export market and those directly affected by the sanctions …
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heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on … productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … average management score is lower in Germany than in the US. Overall, our results point towards lower management quality being …
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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...
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find differences in the employment response to subsidies between domestic and foreign-owned plants, with the former …
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This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
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This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...
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