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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the … different data producers should be widely accessible for research. -- qualification of workforce ; average wage ; export ; firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529524
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Ethnic diversity and firms' export behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
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Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009
We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and...
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Age, wage and productivity
Ours, Jan C. van; Stoeldraijer, Lenny - 2010
Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while productivity does not or does not increase at the same...
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Are older workers worthy of their pay? : an empirical investigation of age-productivity and age-wage nexuses
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimarães, Paulo; Varejão, José M. - 2010
Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains...
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Temporary contracts and monopsony power in the UK labour market
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
This paper addresses the applicability of the theory of equalizing differences (Rosen, 1987) in a market in which temporary and permanent workers co-exist. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a model is developed in which the labour market is...
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Job spells, employer spells, and wage returns to tenure
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2013
We show that the distinction between job spells and employer spells matters for returns to tenure. Employer spells encompass between-job wage movements linked to promotions or demotions while job spells don't. Using a 1% sample of the British workforce over the period 1975-2010, we find that a...
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Wages, hires, and labor market concentration
Marinescu, Ioana; Ouss, Ivan; Pape, Louis-Daniel - 2020
How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...
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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
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