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We test the effectiveness of team incentives by running a natural field experiment in a retail chain of 193 shops and 1,300 employees. As a response to intensified product market competition, the firm offered a bonus to shop teams for surpassing sales targets. A bonus to teams rather than...
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, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …
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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 …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that …
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It … documents that the positive profitability differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically significant …. Instead, we use a newly developed continuous treatment approach and show that exporting improves the profitability almost over …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … sector in Germany. We also conduct our analysis at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall …
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This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
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impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that merge information from surveys performed by the …
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The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
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activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …
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