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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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Works Councils - Sand or Grease in the Operation of German Firms?

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Using a large panel data set we investigate whether works councils act as sand or grease in the operation of German firms. Stochastic production frontier analysis indicates that establishments with and without a works council do not exhibit significant differences in efficiency.

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The Long Awaited Reform of the German Works Constitution Act

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

councils, the availability of alternative employee involvement mechanisms, and the impact of the institution on performance by … performance. Although the results of this exercise differ somewhat from earlier analyses, they provide little support for the …

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Offshoring and firm performance: self-selection, effects on performance, or both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001-03 for the first time are compared to firms that did … performance, six different variants of a matching approach of firms that did and did not start to relocate abroad in 2001-03 were … performed based on a propensity score estimated using firm characteristics in 2000 and the change in the performance variable …

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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; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports …

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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....

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Exports, imports and firm survival: First evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...

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