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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size human capital intensity..

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Exports and Firm Characteristics inGerman Manufacturing Industries

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

Reliable information on the characteristics of exporting and non-exporting firms is importantto guide theorists and …

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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom

Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export, comparing exporters to firms that serve the national market only. Weestimate identically specified empirical models using comparable enterprise level data fromFrance, Germany, and...

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The Exporter Productivity Premium along theProductivity Distribution: First Evidence from aQuantile Regression Approach for Fixed EffectsPanel Data Models

Powel, David; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents thatexporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. Thispositive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies aftercontrolling for observed...

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Offshoring and Firm Performance:Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009

This paper uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matchedregular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation ofactivities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance. Enterprises thatrelocated activities abroad in...

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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce andExport Performance in German Enterprises:Evidence from KombiFiD Data

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack ofdetailed information on the qualification of the … timecombine information from the statistics of employees covered by social security andinformation from surveys performed by the … thequalification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on thequalification of the workforce sheds …

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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival:First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Weche Gelübcke, John Philipp - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn>

This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival forenterprises in Germany using unique tailor-made new representative data that mergeinformation from surveys performed by the Statistical Offices, from administrative datacollected by the Tax Authorities and from...

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German Works Councils Old and New: Incidence, Coverage and Determinants

Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002

information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to …

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Exports and productivity: a survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...

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Exports and Productivity: A survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

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