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Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland. Wir nutzen die exogene Senkung dieser Quote durch die Einführung des Gesetzes zur Bekämpfung der … mandatory employment quota for disabled workers in Germany. We use an exogenous change, introduced through a legislative change …
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We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and on promotions among male blue-collar workers. More than twenty years of personnel data of four entry cohorts in a German company allow us to address issues such as unobserved...
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This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to test the hypothesis that the increase in the per-shipment costs of imports from Japan due to the Fukushima disaster in 2011 lead to an increase in the lumpiness of imports from Japan. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found...
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This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between … trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with … and characteristics of these countries (distance to Germany, difficulty of foreign trade, and market size) on the other …
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This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the link between the number of foreign markets (where a market is defined as the combination of one traded good and one country traded with) a firm is active on and its profitability. We find that in German manufacturing industries the...
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This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 to document the decisive role of multi-market traders that are active on many foreign markets, where a market is defined as a combination of a good traded and a country traded...
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Crinò and Epifani (2012) report and discuss two empirical regularities they find in a representative sample of Italian manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low-income destinations. Second, there is a negative...
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Germany, a country which was hit relatively lightly compared to other countries. Moreover, it is the first study which looks … Germany. Importing instead reveals a positive correlation with survival and firms that both export and import do not show a …
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Im Zuge der durch europarechtliche Vorgaben erzwungenen Liberalisierung des deutschen Postmarktes wurde die Frage der vollständigen Öffnung des deutschen Marktes mit der Einführung eines branchenspezifischen Mindestlohnes verbunden. Der durch die bisherige Exklusivlizenz geschützte...
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