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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 - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615520
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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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299246
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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
ABSTRACT: 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 … firms start to export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005526861
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 … export, and that it does not increase in the following years. Higher wages in exporting firms are thus due to self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703236
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises : Evidence from Kombifid Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
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/10013112052
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Taking a Second Chance: Entrepreneurial Restarters in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might be termed 'stigmatisation of failure': taking a second chance to build one's own firm after failing as a self-employed is said to be much more difficult here than in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822063
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Bremst das Schwerbehindertengesetz die Arbeitsplatzdynamik in Kleinbetrieben?
Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Das Schwerbehindertengesetz verpflichtete in seiner bis 30.9.2000 gültigen Fassung alle Arbeitgeber ab 16 Beschäftigten, sechs Prozent der Arbeitsplätze mit Schwerbehinderten zu besetzen, ansonsten war für jeden nicht entsprechend besetzten Arbeitsplatz eine Ausgleichsabgabe von monatlich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615515
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Sind mittelständische Betriebe der Jobmotor der deutschen Wirtschaft?
Wagner, Joachim; Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In public discussion in Germany it is often argued that jobs are mainly created in small and medium-sized firms (i.e. the "Mittelstand"), whereas large firms tend to reduce their number of jobs. An empirical analysis for the period 1999 to 2005 with data of all western and eastern German firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615516
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Beschäftigungswirkungen arbeits- und sozialrechtlicher Schwellenwerte (Employment effects of thresholds in labour law)
Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 173-180
"In Germany, there exist around 160 threshold values stating that certain labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size (usually defined by the number of employees). As crossing a threshold may result in additional costs for the firm, it is often hypothesized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732137
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Beschäftigungswirkungen arbeits- und sozialrechtlicher Schwellenwerte (Employment effects of thresholds in labour law)
Koller, Lena; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 173-180
"In Germany, there exist around 160 threshold values stating that certain labour laws and regulations apply only in establishments above a critical size (usually defined by the number of employees). As crossing a threshold may result in additional costs for the firm, it is often hypothesized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195371