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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

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Between Firm Changes in Earnings Inequality : The Dominant Role of Industry Effects

Haltiwanger, John - 2020

the U.S. is accounted for by industry effects. These industry effects stem from rising inter-industry earnings … differentials and not from changing distribution of employment across industries. We also find the rising inter-industry earnings … components of the recent literature: one focuses on firm effects and the other on occupation effects. The link via industry …

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Management Practices and Productivity in Germany

Broszeit, Sandra - 2016

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...

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Offshoring, Wages and Job Security of Temporary Workers

Görg, Holger - 2012

. Data are taken from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), linked with industry-level data on offshoring of materials and …

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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia

Eslava, Marcela - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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Foreign Acquisition, Plant Survival, and Employment Growth

Bandick, Roger - 2009

This paper analyses the effect of foreign acquisition on survival probability and employment growth of target plant using data on Swedish manufacturing plants during the period 1993-2002. An improvement over previous studies is that we take into account firm level heterogeneity by separating the...

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Multinationals as Stabilizers? Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth

Alvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - 2021

This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth at the plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals and domestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case of economic slowdown in Chile...

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