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We investigate the effect of the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) on the economic performance of manufacturing firms in Germany. Our difference-in-differences framework relies on several parametric conditioning strategies and nearest neighbor matching. As a measure of economic...
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Increasing energy efficiency is one of the main goals in current German energy and climate policies. We study the determinants of energy efficiency in the German manufacturing sector based on official firm-level production census data. By means of a stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate the...
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product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are …
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a Melitz (2003) type productivity term to differentiate firms by the extent of exposure to the demand shock. The idea is … that the effects of the demand shock should be driven by differences in firm-level productivity from the period before the … initial establishment productivity with employment changes over a long panel from 1995 to 2009. The estimates show that the …
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
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This paper explores the role of R&D worker mobility on innovation performance. As one main novelty, we employ churning as a measure for worker mobility. Churning depicts the number of workers which are replaced by new ones. It is a very informative indicator since a firm may be exposed to...
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employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers … econometric analysis shows that firms’ labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile … internet access. Our instrumental variables approach reveals that mobile internet use does cause higher labour productivity. …
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employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access …. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity. …
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