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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation: micro evidence from Germany und the US

Haltiwanger, John; Jarmin, Ron; Schank, Thorsten - 2003

This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that U.S. businesses engage in experimentation in a...

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German works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2003

We estimate the effects of works councils on productivity, 1997-2000, using the IAB Establishment Panel, a nationally representative German data set. We recoup the works council effect by estimating translog production functions, stochastic frontier production functions, and a model in first...

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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

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 follow over time plants that start to export. We show that the...

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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? ; first evidence from German linked employer employee data

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Productivity leadership in manufacturing : Germany, Japan and the United States, 1973 -1989

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Manufacturing productivity performance in Poland and West Germany in 1989

Liberda, Barbara Z.; Monnikhof, Erik J.; Ark, Bart van - 1996

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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 (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 2008

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Higher wages in exporting firms: self-selection, export effect, or both? : first evidence from German employer-employee data

Schank, Thorsten (contributor); Schnabel, Claus (contributor) - 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 plants that start to export. We show that the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003648400

Mind the gap! : international comparisons of productivity in services and goods production

Inklaar, Robert; Timmer, Marcel; Ark, Bart van - In: German economic review 8 (2007) 2, pp. 281-307

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Works councils in the production process

Addison, John T.; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; … - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : journal of contextual economics 126 (2006) 2, pp. 251-283

This paper uses data from a nationally representative panel of establishments to estimate the effects of German works councils on firm performance, 1997 - 2000. We analyze the impact of this institution on sales and sales growth using OLC and fixed effect estimates of a translog production...

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