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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282402
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The German manufacturing sector is a granular economy
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282465
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Foreign ownership and firm survival: First evidence for enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - 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/10010282635
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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 … 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/10010291366
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Worker directors: a German product that didn't export?
Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus - 2009
Despite its lack of attractiveness to other countries, the German system of quasi-parity codetermination at company level has held up remarkably well. We recount the theoretical arguments for and against codetermination and survey the empirical evidence on the effects of the institution, tracing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269284
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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/10010269632
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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291425
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Unequal access to higher education in the Czech Republic: The role of spatial distribution of universities
Franta, Michal; Guzi, Martin - 2012
We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the entrance to a university is a sequential process in the Czech Republic we model both a student's decision to apply to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282526
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Conflict, food price shocks, and food insecurity: The experience of Afghan households
D'Souza, Anna; Jolliffe, Dean - 2012
Using nationally-representative household survey data and confidential geo-coded data on violence, we examine the linkages between conflict, food insecurity, and food price shocks in Afghanistan. Spatial mappings of the raw data reveal large variations in levels of food insecurity and conflict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283950
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Does corporate governance reform necessarily boost firm performance? Recent evidence from Russia
Kuznecovs, Mihails; Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
This paper examines whether the introduction of corporate governance (CG) reforms in general and that of transparency and disclosure (T&D) rules in particular can necessarily boost firm performance. Existing literature suggests that CG reforms can boost performance because it can resolve the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282468