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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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Office in Germany prohibited further forward integration of gas importing firms with retail incumbents from 2005/2006 to 2010 … sectional data (for September 2009) for about 500 sub markets for household customers in Germany. These submarkets have …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
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degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …
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internationalisation effects at the firm level. The results show that export experience and experience in knowledge protection are highly …
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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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domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …
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