reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms' export activities …

difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages …

market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business … expected deadweight losses related to start-up subsidies occur on a (much) lower scale than usually assumed …

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 …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …