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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277451
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Das Entsendegesetz: Suendenfall oder Loesung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?
Rotte, Ralf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
auf den heimischen Arbeitsmarkt wird dazu zunächst ein Blick auf die gegenwärtige Krise der deutschen Bauwirtschaft und …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262256
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Lost in transition? Minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287595
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Exports and labour demand: searching for functional structure in multi-output multi-skill technologies
Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2005
In order to simplify the representation of a technological relationship between inputs and outputs, a production unit's technology must typically satisfy some restrictive conditions, some of them being well known in the literature. This paper presents new results for aggregating labour inputs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274478
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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274711
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity: Are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280714
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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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The microstructure of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282172
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The effect of product demand on inequality: Evidence from the US and the UK
Leonardi, Marco - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between product demand and the pattern of rising skill premia and rising employment of skilled workers in the US and the UK since the 1980s. If more skilled workers demand more skill-intensive goods, then an increase in relative skill supply will also induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269763
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An analysis of the impact of affirmative action programs on self-employment in the construction industry
Blanchflower, David G.; Wainwright, Jon - 2005
The main findings of this paper are that despite the existence of various affirmative action programs designed to improve the position of women and minorities in public construction, little has changed in the last twenty five years. We present evidence showing that where race conscious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267432