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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
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Sind Löhne und Steuern zu hoch?
Köddermann, Ralf - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 20, pp. 06-15
Im internationalen Vergleich werden Löhne und Steuern in Deutschland als zu hoch wahrgenommen. Dieser Eindruck kann …
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Anforderungserfordernisse und Unternehmensstrategien für Europa'92
Scholz, Lothar - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 43 (1990) 28, pp. 24-31
Die Untersuchung, ob durch die EG '92 ein besonderer struktureller Anpassungsbedarf auf die westdeutschen Unternehmen zukommt (der möglicherweise wirtschaftspolitischen Handlungsbedarf nach sich zieht) ergab zwar, daß die Maßnahmen zur Vollendung des Binnenmarktes als "marktstrukturneutral",...
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Industrie erwartet leicht gebremstes Wachstum
Jäckel, Peter - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 43 (1990) 09, pp. 03-09
Die bundesdeutsche Industrie blickt Anfang 1990 mit Optimismus in die Zukunft. In der graphoskopischen Prognose ergeben sich Wachstumsraten der Nettoproduktion für 1990 zwischen 3% und 5%. Den Plänen zufolge steigen 1990 die Auslandsumsätze um 6%, die Inlandsumsätze um 5%. Die...
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Stärken und Schwächen Deutschlands im internationalen Wettbewerb um Einkommen und Arbeitsplätze
Hummel, Marlies - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 49 (1996) 3, pp. 03-18
Der Bericht faßt die Ergebnisse des Strukturberichts 1995 zusammen. Die vereinigungsbedingte stärkere Binnenorientierung stimulierte Investoren auch in Sektoren, die im langfristigen Trend weniger wachstumsstark sind. Das Wachstum des Dienstleistungssektors reichte nicht aus, um die...
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Downward nominal wage rigidity in services: direct evidence from a firm survey
Radowski, Daniel; Bonin, Holger - 2009
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 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 …-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
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Exports and profitability: first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …
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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
This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the co-determination firm performance nexus by using a new type of data that combines information on the co-determination status of enterprises from a commercial data base and supplementary information collected from the firms with...
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