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Central wage bargaining and local wage flexibility: evidence from the entire wage distribution
Büttner, Thiess; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 1998
We argue that in labor markets with central wage bargaining wage flexibility varies systematically across the wage distribution: local wage flexibility is more relevant for the upper part of the wage distribution, and flexibility of wages negotiated under central wage bargaining affects the...
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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets: Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2005
-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297494
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The Export-Growth Relationship: Estimating a Dose-Response Function
Fryges, Helmut - 2006
The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms? export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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Global Sensing and Sensibility: A Multi-Stage Matching Assessment of Competitive Advantage from Foreign Sources of Innovation
Teichert, Thorsten; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2006
We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...
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The Influence of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme on Environmental Innovations and Competitiveness in Germany: An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies and a Lar...
Hoffmann, Esther; Ankele, Kathrin; Ziegler, Andreas; … - 2003
This paper investigates the effects of the EU Environmental Management and Auditing Scheme (EMAS) on environmental innovations and competitiveness in German facilities. It comprises twelve in-depth case studies and telephone interviews with 1277 EMAS-validated facilities. The surveys show a...
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Cost pass-through in strategic oligopoly: Sectoral evidence for the EU ETS
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2010
Price adjustments, particularly the cost pass-through relationships, are at the core of the analysis on how asymmetric climate change policy initiates two channels of carbon leakage: (decreasing) market shares and profit margins. Using advanced time-series techniques, this paper explores the...
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Unmasking the Porter hypothesis: Environmental innovations and firm-profitability
Rexhäuser, Sascha; Rammer, Christian - 2011
We examine impacts of different types of environmental innovations on firm profits. Following Porter's (1991) hypothesis that environmental regulation can improve firms' competitiveness we distinguish regulation induced and voluntary environmental innovations. We find that innovations which...
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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Westerheide, Peter - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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Payout Policy and Owners? Interests: Evidence from German Savings Banks
Kleff, Volker; Weber, Martin - 2005
The savings banks? decision to distribute profits among their public owners is strongly regulated by law in order to guarantee their adequate funding via retained profits. However, the legal scope is reluctantly exhausted. In this study we examine the determinants of the savings banks? payout...
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