financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings … unions are strong and is negative where unions are weak. This notion, encountered in recent research in Britain (and Germany …

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. … heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on …

results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the …

paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …. This paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or … on other core dimensions of firm performance. -- Offshoring ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …

; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …