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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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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD Data
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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/10009416940
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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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Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? : Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
Cortes, Kalena E. - 2004
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261826
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Rates of Return to Education: The View of Students in Switzerland
Wolter, Stefan C.; Zbinden, André - 2001
Wage expectations are important determinants for individual schooling decisions. However, research on individual expectations of students is scarce. The paper presents the Swiss results of a survey that was conducted in 10 European countries. Its main findings are that point estimates of wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262577
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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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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333326
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Help in a Foreign Land: Internationalized Banks and Firms’ Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms’ export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351997
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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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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