-exporters. However, many firms from the lower end of the productivity distribution are exporters. Germany is a case in point. A recent … study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ("learning-by-importing"). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One -third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …

performance indicators, productivity and profitability. -- One-third co-determination ; firm performance ; Germany …

document the first empirical results an the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor an the … systematically by testing for selfselection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …