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Do exporters really pay higher wages? : First evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2006

Exports , wages , exporter wage premium , linked employer-employee data , Germany … same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this …-collar) employees working in a plant with an export-sales ratio of 60 percent earn about 1.8 (0.9) percent more than similar employees …

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Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation : a replication study with firm-level data from six European countries

Wagner, Joachim - 2015 - This version: July 21, 2015

manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …

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Firm age and the margins of international trade : comparable evidence from five European countries

Wagner, Joachim - 2014 - This version: September 23, 2014

This note uses comparable representative data for manufacturing firms from five European countries (Germany, France …, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export … revealed is in line with the theoretical considerations. Older firms tend to be more often exporters and importers, they export …

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Exports, R&D and Productivity : a test of the Bustos-model with enterprise data from France, Italy and Spain

Wagner, Joachim - 2014 - This version: October 1, 2014

2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non … export nor engage in R&D. These results are in line with findings for Argentina reported by Bustos, and with findings for … Germany and Denmark. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and …

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: January 3, 2012

workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the … different data producers should be widely accessible for research. -- Qualification of workforce ; average wage ; export ; firm …

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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?

Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78

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What are the different strategies for EMU countries?

Artus, Patrick - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 2, pp. 65-78

The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...

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Intra-firm wage inequality and firm performance : first evidence from German linked employer-employee-data

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008

Economic theory suggests both positive and negative relationships between intra-firm wage inequality and productivity. This paper contributes to the growing empirical literature on this subject. We combine German employer-employee-data for the years 1995-2005 with inequality measures using the...

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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers : evidence from German administrative data

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...

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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages : evidence from Germany

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2009

This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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