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Exports and productivity : a survey of the evidence from firm-level data

Wagner, Joachim - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 30 (2007) 1, pp. 60-82

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. …

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Higher wages in exporting firms : self-selection, export effect, or both? ; first evidence from linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Review of world economics 146 (2010) 2, pp. 303-322

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting firms, the direction of the link between exporting and wages is less clear. Using a rich set of German linked employer-employee panel data we follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 33 (2010) 8, pp. 1006-1022

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and average industry productivity increases due to a selection effect. These …

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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?

Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - In: Review of world economics 145 (2010) 4, pp. 641-665

document the first empirical results an the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor an the … systematically by testing for selfselection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

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