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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth
Bandick, Roger - 2009
This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158617
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O. - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087867
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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Draca, Mirko - 2013
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a significant impact on wages, but only a limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754418
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The Post-Entry Performance of Cohorts of Export Starters in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are small on average compared to incumbent exporters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138253
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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David - 2010
manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments
Fackler, Daniel - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096121
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657