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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms: The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2001

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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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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Lingering illness or sudden death? Pre-exit employment developments in German establishments

Fackler, Daniel; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 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 shrink dramatically already several years...

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