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Exporting and workforce skills-intensity in the Egyptian manufacturing firms: Empirical evidence using world bank firm-level data for Egypt
Abdelgouad, Ahmed Fayez - 2016
The World Bank's Enterprise Surveys (WES( for the manufacturing firms in Egypt are used to study the characteristics of exporting firms and the determinants of the exporting behavior in the Egyptian manufacturing sector in general and to investigate the link between the exporting activities and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011616224
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms: Self-selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
ABSTRACT: While it is a stylized fact that exporting firms pay higher wages than non-exporting 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 … firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526861
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Do exporters really pay higher wages? First evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2006
Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545348
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Self-selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286601
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478924
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095655
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Do exporters really pay higher wages?: First evidence from German linked employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2006
Many plant-level studies find that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265125
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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both?: first evidence from German employer-employee data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265169
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Subsistence and substitutability in consumer preferences
Baumgärtner, Stefan; Drupp, Moritz A.; Quaas, Martin F. - 2013
We propose a formal description of individual preferences that captures a subsistence requirement in consumption in an otherwise standard constant-elasticity-ofsubstitution (CES) utility specification. We study how substitutability between the subsistence good and another good depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333508
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Baumol's cost-disease, efficiency, and productivity in the performing arts: An analysis of German public theaters
Last, Anne-Kathrin; Wetzel, Heike - 2010
This paper analyzes the productivity development in the German public theater sector for the seasons 1991/1992-2005/2006. Using a stochastic distance frontier approach that allows to decompose total factor productivity change into different sources we examine (a) whether Baumol's cost-disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281766