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This book analyzes growth at the total economy and industry level from an international perspective, providing unique cross-country comparisons. The authors focus on the EU-25 countries but also include the US, Japan and Korea. The chapters explore growth patterns from a long-run perspective,...
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The change of production and demand conditions requires continues adjustments of the product portfolio of enterprises. Based on representative micro data of official surveys for Germany these adjustments are set here in relationship with the success of enterprises. It can be shown that the...
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Die ostdeutschen Unternehmen haben offensichtlich noch immer große Wettbewerbsprobleme. Im Vergleich mit Westdeutschland können die Betriebe - als Gesamtheit gesehen - auf den überregionalen Märkten ihre Produkte nur zu einem geringeren Preis absetzen, die Beschäftigten werden geringer...
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Der Wandel der Produktions- und Nachfragebedingungen verlangt von den Unternehmen immer wieder Anpassungen ihrer Produktpalette. Die Mehrzahl der Unternehmen im verarbeitenden Gewerbe in Deutschland verfolgten dabei eine Spezialisierungsstrategie. Sie konzentrieren sich auf die Erstellung und...
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In Eastern Germany, wage differentiation between firms has clearly grown, parallel to individual wage differentials. Nevertheless, the wage spread between firms is still much less than in Western Germany. In this paper, a non-parametric decomposition is used to analyze the difference between the...
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Increasingly, the existence of firm-level wage differences is explained by the rent-sharing hypothesis. A necessary condition for rent-sharing is the assumption that firms are acting on imperfect product markets such that they can achieve quasi-monopolistic rents. In particular, IO literature is...
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