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Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinaldata at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It applies...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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Exports and productivity growth : first evidence from a continuous treatment approach

Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007

A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003452158

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, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. We estimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany,...

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The exporter productivity premium along the productivity distribution : first evidence from a quantile regression approach for fixed effects panel data models

Powell, David; Wagner, Joachim - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...

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Do outliers and unobserved heterogeneity explain the exporter productivity premium? : evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Wagner, Joachim - 2013 - This version: June 17, 2013

A stylized fact from the literature on the Micro-econometrics of International Trade and a central implication of the heterogeneous firm models from the New New Trade Theory is that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. It is argued that this exporter productivity premium is due to...

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Still different after all these years : extensive and intensive margins of exports in East and West German manufacturing enterprises

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

This paper uses a new tailor-made data set to investigate the differences in extensive and intensive margins of exports in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 years after the re-unification of Germany. West German...

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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

Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. This paper uses a large set of linked employer-employee data from Germany to analyze this exporter wage premium. We show that the wage differential...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003350577

Nascent and infant entrepreneurs in Germany : evidence from the regional entrepreneurship monitor (REM)

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

Deutschland , Unternehmer , Unternehmensgründung - Nascent entrepreneurs , infant entrepreneurs , Germany … patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our … theoretical priors. Both types of entrepreneurship are fostered by the width of experience and a role model in the family, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316771

Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb - nascent necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs in Germany : evidence from the regional entrepreneurship monitor (REM)

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

Deutschland / Unternehmer - necessity entrepreneurship, opportunity entrepreneurship / Germany, REM …

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