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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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Subsidies and exports in Germany: first evidence from enterprise panel data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277451
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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 rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in … and export exposure. We find that the rise of the East in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German … regions specialized in import-competing industries, both in manufacturing and beyond. Regions specialized in export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Is the erosion thesis overblown? Evidence from the orientation of uncovered employers
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - 2012
It is sometimes claimed that the coverage of collective bargaining in Germany is considerably understated because of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283987
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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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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory: Locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282163
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013
exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319408
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
exporting on firms' labor demand. Using rich, administrative linked employer-employee panel data from Germany, we explicitly … control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885180
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany: First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for … an impact of subsidies on the share of exports in total sales in West Germany but no evidence in East Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103259