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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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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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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119546
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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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Do Firms Benefit from Active Labour Market Policies?
Lechner, Michael - 2013
This paper investigates the link between variation in the supply of workers who participate in specific types of active labour market policies (ALMPs) and firm performance using a new exceptionally informative German employer-employee data base. For identification we exploit that German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075746
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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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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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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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Dissonant Works Councils and Establishment Survivability
Addison, John T. - 2019
plant closings in Germany, 2006-2015. The potential effects of worker representation on plant survivability have been little …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867152
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The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes : Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2014
In this paper we use a large linked employer-employee data set on German establishments between 1993 and 2012 to investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We use two different measures to identify the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043668