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Sind mittelständische Betriebe der Jobmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft?

Wagner, Joachim (contributor); Koller, Lena (contributor); … - 2007

In public discussion in Germany it is often argued that jobs are mainly created in small and medium-sized firms (i.e. the Mittelstandʺ), whereas large firms tend to reduce their number of jobs. An empirical analysis for the period 1999 to 2005 with data of all western and eastern German firms...

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : first evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2006

demonstrates that the impact of works council presence on labor productivity varies between manufacturing and services, between … plants that are or are not covered by collective bargaining, and along the conditional distribution of labor productivity. No … productivity effects of works councils are found for the service sector and in manufacturing plants not covered by collective …

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

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008

While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than nonexporting 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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