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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403909
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Age and gender effects of workforce composition on productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - In: Contemporary Economics 8 (2014) 1, pp. 25-46
age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436066
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - In: The service industries journal 34 (2014) 1, pp. 24-37
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257807
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 2, pp. 161-170
"Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118486
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises : evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 2, pp. 161-170
"Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643142
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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: evidence from KombiFiD data
Wagner, Joachim - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 45 (2012) 2, pp. 161-170
Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650762
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Effect of international activity on firm performance
Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884431
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - In: Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv) 145 (2010) 4, pp. 641-665
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596101
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Effect of international activity on firm performance
Wagner, Joachim - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404871
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Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419
firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278541