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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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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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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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Offshoring and Firm Performance : Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153306
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Start-Up Subsidies for the Unemployed : Long-Term Evidence and Effect Heterogeneity
Caliendo, Marco - 2010
(ALMP) in many OECD countries. Germany is a good example where the spending on start-up subsidies for the unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147125
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Entry, Exit and Productivity : Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2007
paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777270
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157035
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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond : First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations
Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010
This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141754
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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