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Productivity Premia for German Manufacturing Firms Exporting to the Euro-Area and Beyond : First Evidence from Robust Fixed Effects Estimations

Verardi, Vincenzo - 2010

estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … invariant firm specific effects, and tests for self-selection of more productive firms into exporting beyond the Euro-zone. (3 … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …

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The German Manufacturing Sector is a Granular Economy

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

Using the approach suggested by Gabaix (Econometrica 2011) this paper demonstrates that idiosyncratic shocks in the largest firms are important for an understanding of aggregate volatility in German manufacturing industries. The implications of this finding for theoretical and empirical research...

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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises : Evidence from Kombifid Data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Lingering Illness or Sudden Death? Pre-Exit Employment Developments in German Establishments

Fackler, Daniel - 2012

Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving … establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments … are more clearly visible in West than in East Germany. Our results also hold when applying a matching approach …

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …

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Offshoring and Firm Performance : Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

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The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data Based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2009

A new generation of data sets became available recently in the research data centres of the German statistical offices. These new data combine information for firms gathered in different surveys (or from other sources) that could not be analyzed jointly before. This paper offers a short...

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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models

Powell, David - 2010

manufacturing enterprises in Germany, one of the leading actors in the world market for goods. We show that the premium decreases …

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