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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger - 2012

We investigate the impact of offshoring on individual level wages and unemployment probabilities and pay particular attention to the question of whether workers on temporary contracts are affected differently than workers on permanent contracts. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic...

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter? Micro-Level Wage Effects of International Outsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo - 2008

labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … 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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Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra - 2016

heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on … productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … average management score is lower in Germany than in the US. Overall, our results point towards lower management quality being …

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Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Who is to Suffer? Quantifying the Impact of Sanctions on German Firms

Görg, Holger; Jacobs, Anna; Meuchelböck, Saskia - 2023

In this paper, we use a novel firm level dataset for Germany to investigate the effect of sanctions on export behaviour …

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Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect : Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier - 2013

Using information on more than 1000 firms in a number of emerging countries, we find quantitative evidence that suppliers of multinationals that are pressured by their customers to reduce production costs or develop new products have higher productivity growth than other firms, including other...

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Services Outsourcing and Innovation : An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger - 2014

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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