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effects. Wages and employment in manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, hotels and restaurants and social and personal … service activities seem to have been relatively less affected. -- EU-enlargement ; economic integration ; employment ; wages …This paper considers the (short run) employment and wage effects of the 2004 EUenlargement on firms located close to …
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We consider the impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and the exporting behavior of German service enterprises in Germany's eastern border region. Our results from regression adjusted difference-in-differences-estimators combined with matching and panel data from official...
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …
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comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … productive services firms that pay higher wages. The surprising finding of self-selection of less profitable German business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989751
This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firmlevel data for 16 European … countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment … differences, it also generates new insights into the heterogeneity of the environmental innovation-employment growth link along …
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German reunication was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany of WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an...
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labor market effects of German re-unification. In the aftermath of the re-unification shock, despite some gain in employment …
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concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through …
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performed significantly better in terms of employment growth. …
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Was Germany ever united? Given the historical circumstances of Germany's unification in the 19th century there is no obvious answer to this question. But such an answer can affect the prospects of the post-1989 unification process, and beyond this of European integration. We provide an...
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