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Union membership and age : the inverted u-shape hypothesis under test

Schnabel, Claus (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778856

Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041

Exports and profitability : first evidence for German manufacturing firms

Fryges, Helmut (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008

Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …. -- Exports ; profitability ; micro data ; Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771833

Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002504494

One-third codetermination at company supervisory boards and firm performance in German manufacturing industries : first direct evidence from a new type of enterprise data

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One-third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884086

The research potential of new types of enterprise data based on surveys from official statistics in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

institutions. -- Enterprise data ; Germany ; research data centres …

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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The phantom of the opera : cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Productivity premia for German manufacturing firms exporting to the Euro-area and beyond : first evidence from robust fixed effects estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...

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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

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796733