This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for first order stochastic...

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors both types of entrepreneurship are fostered...

This paper uses an unbalanced panel data set for exporting firms from manufacturing industries in one German Federal state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the microstructure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 - 2001/2002 it is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants...

Der positive Zusammenhang zwischen Firmengröße und Exporttätigkeit gilt als ein stilisierter Fakt: Gestützt auf deskriptive Befunde und Ergebnisse von Regressionsmodellen auf der Basis von Querschnittsdaten wird argumentiert, dass sowohl die Wahrscheinlichkeit zu exportieren als auch der...