1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its … German cities - with the intensity of entry being dependent on the number of inhabitants, average income, the share of under …

business exit, otherwise it is a status quopreserving business exit. The motives for divestiture specified in prior studies are … choice between strategic and status quo-preserving business exit with secondary data on 213 divestitures during 1999 … firm financial performance is a stronger predictor of strategic business exit than corporate strategy. …

determinants of route entry for both providers. Applying survival models, we find that both companies show an increased probability … increased entry probability independent of the presence of a competitor. …

effects into components attributable to selection on unobservables, and to changes in the way that displaced workers are … a large increase in post-displacement employment in the temporary work sector after the reforms. Sorting into worse … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post-displacement …