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The Effects of European Economic and Monetary Union on Wage Behaviour
Lauer, Charlotte - 1999
This paper evaluates the possible consequences of the forthcoming European and Monetary Union on wage behaviour. It will be shown that EMU does not influence wage policy directly, but rather indirectly through its implications on other areas of economic policy, predominantly on monetary policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262269
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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297598
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Beyond GDP and back: What is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?
Kassenböhmer, Sonja C.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274684
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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets: Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2005
-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297494
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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
Fryges, Helmut - 2006
The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms? export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297536
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297651
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282156
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Global Sensing and Sensibility: A Multi-Stage Matching Assessment of Competitive Advantage from Foreign Sources of Innovation
Teichert, Thorsten; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...
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The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Lar...
Hoffmann, Esther; Ankele, Kathrin; Ziegler, Andreas; … - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298132
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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly: Sectoral evidence for the EU ETS
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010
Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric climate change policy initiates two channels of carbon leakage: (decreasing) market shares and profit margins. Using advanced time-series techniques, this paper explores the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301693