This paper uses comparable firm level data from France, Italy and Spain to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER … Germany and Denmark. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and …

This paper uses comparable firm level data from France, Italy and Spain to test a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER … Germany and Denmark. The model, therefore, seems to be useful to guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and …

Folklore has it that the comparatively low proportion of self-employed in Germany is in part due to a habit that might …

western Germany from 1980 to 2004 and in eastern Germany from 1992 to 2004. Such a negative trend can be observed for men and … worker (significant in western Germany only). A decomposition analysis shows that differences in union density over time and … between eastern and western Germany to a large degree cannot be explained by differences in the characteristics of employees …

context of Germany where the works council is the analogue of workplace unionism. Using parametric and nonparametric methods …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … for trading internationally are about the same in West and East Germany. Compared to firms that do not trade at all two …

intervals for the maximum value, we demonstrate that at least for West Germany Blanchflower's hypothesis does not hold. Our …

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. …

the micro-structure of the recent export recovery in 2010 in manufacturing industries in Germany after the great recession …

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 …