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This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...
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Germany, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and profitability. It …
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large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …
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We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...
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-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
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The relationship between individual firms? export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms? export status as a binary...
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We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …
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European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …
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Although in its infancy, one promising application of Internet technology for firms is so-called Internet commerce or electronic commerce. This paper analyses the determinants of B2B (business-to-business) adoption borrowing from the literature on the adoption of new technologies and considering...
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policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …
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