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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 unique tailor-made new representative data that merge information from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative data collected by the Tax Authorities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Resource Misallocation in European Firms : The Role of Constraints, Firm Characteristics and Managerial Decisions
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2018
Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923225
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FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe : Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2014
focused on Enlarged Europe. The results show that there exists a positive indirect impact of FDI on productivity and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055562
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Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity in Services : Direct Evidence from a Firm Survey
Radowski, Daniel - 2009
The paper uses a new German employer survey on wage setting practices to analyze incidence and sources of nominal wage rigidity in services vs. manufacturing. We observe that wage freezes are significantly more frequent and wage cuts less frequent in services. Reasons preventing wage cuts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765312
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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe - the Role of Services
D'Agostino, Antonello; Serafini, Roberta; … - 2021
sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in … the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is key to …This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317613
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Corporate R&D and Firm Efficiency : Evidence from Europe’s Top R&D Investors
Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2010
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149610
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Does Gender Matter for Firm Performance? Evidence from Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Sabarwal, Shwetlena; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
Using 2005 firm level data for 26 ECA countries, this paper estimates performance gaps between male- and female-owned businesses, while controlling for their location by industry and country. We find that female entrepreneurs have significantly smaller scale of operations (as measured by sales...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324913
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Surviving the Crisis : Foreign Multinationals vs Domestic Firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121748
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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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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity : Are Services Firms Different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119546