This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … for foreign owned firms in West Germany but not in East Germany …

developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

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

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …-productivity profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …