larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging …

larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging …

-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 …

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 …

confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- international trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms …

confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- International trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import … competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms …