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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth
Wagner, Joachim - 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/10011417118
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Low-productive exporters are high-quality exporters : evidence from Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2014 - This version: February 6, 2014
-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …
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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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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth
Wagner, Joachim - 2019
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/10012122596
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander (contributor); Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779041
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms : self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ("learning-by-importing"). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793388
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One-third codetermination at company supervisory boards and firm performance in German manufacturing industries : first direct evidence from a new type of enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One-third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884086
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One-third codetermination at company supervisory boards and firm performance in German manufacturing industries : first direct evidence from a new type of enterprise data
Wagner, Joachim - 2009
performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One -third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872567
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Exports and productivity in Germany
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2007
presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and nonexporters is at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003436874