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Demand side analysis of microlending markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander; Kneiding, Christoph; Germelmann, … - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit

Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011

overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self … that overdrafts are used by self-employed to finance their business as well. This indicates that intermingling constitutes … a financing strategy when regular business loans might not be accessible. -- small business finance ; consumer credit …

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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Recruitment and job applications of older jobseekers from the establishments' perspective

Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Brussig, Martin (contributor) - 2007

In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...

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Unobserved individual and firm heterogeneity in wage and tenure functions : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Cornelißen, Thomas (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2007

We estimate wage and job tenure functions that include individual and firm effects capturing time-invariant unobserved worker and firm heterogeneity using German linked employer-employee data (LIAB data set). We find that both types of heterogeneity are correlated to the observed characteristics...

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Women move differently : job separations and gender

Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment...

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Exports and firm characteristics in German manufacturing industries

Wagner, Joachim - 2010

Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is important to guide theorists and policy makers in an evidence based way. This holds true especially for Germany, a leading actor on the world markets for goods and services. This paper makes three contributions...

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High wage workers match with high wage firms : clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

Andrews, Martyn J.; Gill, Leonard; Schank, Thorsten; … - 2012

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost no evidence of a positive correlation between the worker and firm contributions in two-way fixed-effects wage equations. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard...

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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Establishment exits in Germany : the role of size and age

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Using comprehensive data for West Germany, this paper investigates the determinants of establishment exit. We find that between 1975 and 2006 the average exit rate has risen considerably. In order to test various "liabilities" of establishment survival identified in the literature, we analyze...

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