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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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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 … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …
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study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to …. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of …
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's exports and the distance to destination countries for Germany. To anticipate the most important result, it is shown that the …
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margins of exports empirically for the first time for Germany. Results turn out to be fully in line with the theoretical … considerations. Older firms are more often exporters, export more and more different goods to more different destination countries …, and export to more distant destination markets. …
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profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the … world market for goods. The paper demonstrates that exporters of high-quality goods tend to be more profitable. …
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of input factors and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading … actors on the world market for goods. The paper demonstrates that in German manufacturing industries exporters of high …-quality goods tend to use high-quality inputs, while the firm size is not related at all to export quality. …
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