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production plant in a foreign country that produces goods similar to those produced in Germany (i. e. is a horizontally …
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Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as...
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intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our … taken for granted. -- Unionization ; age ; inverted U-shape ; Germany …
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document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …. -- Exports ; profitability ; micro data ; Germany …
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Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...
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representation ; firm performance ; Germany …
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performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One-third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …
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institutions. -- Enterprise data ; Germany ; research data centres …
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