A detailed analysis of the German productivity development is indispensable for understanding, why Europe is lagging … behind the US growth since the mid 1990s. In this paper a new and unique database is used to analyze the sources of German … productivity growth since 1970. It is shown that investment in information and communication technology (ICT) played a minor role …

-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 …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

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 …

robots. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative, impact on robot …

probability of robot adoption. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative …