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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 …
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From a theoretical viewpoint the relationship between foreign ownership and unionization is ambiguous. On the one hand, foreign owners have better opportunities to undermine workers' unionization. On the other hand, workers of foreign-owned firms have an increased demand for the protection...
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Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to … focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not … sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the physical distance between the foreign parent company and its German …
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This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans – in particular instalment loans and overdrafts – to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal...
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German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference …
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According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment …
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than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … resulting in a considerable decrease in concerns over xenophobic hostility among the German population. Furthermore, in …
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duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …
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This paper explores the effects of foreign direct investment, measured by mergers and acquisitions, on domestic entrepreneurial entry. We use a micro‐panel of more than two thousand individuals disaggregated by industry in seventy countries including both developed and developing economies,...
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