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Product Diversification and Stability of Employment and Sales: First Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms
No full textWe use a unique rich newly built data set for German manufacturing enterprises to investigate the relationship between product diversification and the stability of sales and employment. We find that contrary to portfolio theoretic considerations more diversified firms exhibit a higher variability of sales and employment. However, the effects are negligibly small from an economics point of view.Product diversification, stability, variability, Germany
Shari Wagner
No full textShari Wagner, Poet Laureate of Indiana and Author, shares her poetry. Students share a few favorite poems by various authors
Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: Evidence from the German clothing industry and the Multi-Fibre Arrangement
No full textThis paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level using difference-in-differences. Our results suggest relatively small increases in unemployment risk and no wage effects on the individual level, despite a 30% increase in plant mortality. Part of the different effects found for plants and individuals can be attributed to the reallocation of workers into other industries and occupations.
Matthias Wagner : author profile
No full textThe author presented on this page has published his 10. article in Angewandte Chemie in the last 10 years
"On Writing with Catherine Wagner"
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Catherine Wagner is the author of two books of poems, 'Miss America' and 'Macular Hole,' and co-editor of 'Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poems on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing.'" Listen to an interview conducted by Tom Orange
Exports and Firm Characteristics – First Evidence from Fractional Probit Panel Estimates
No full textUsing recently released nationally representative data and a new estimator for fractional probit panel models, this paper reconsiders the relationship between the fraction of exports in total sales and firm characteristics in West and East German manufacturing. Controlling for unobserved firm characteristics no impact of human capital and R&D intensity on export performance is found, while firm size is positively related to exporting in West Germany only.Exports, firm characteristics, fractional probit panel model, Germany
The Research Potential of New Types of Enterprise Data based on Surveys from Official Statistics in Germany
No full textA 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 description of these data, and gives examples of their use to demonstrate their research potential. Furthermore, and looking ahead to the next generation of data, it discusses an ongoing project, KombiFiD, that will for the first time offer access to linked firm level data collected by different data producing public institutions.Enterprise data, Germany, research data centres
The impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and exports of service enterprises in the German eastern border region
No full textWe consider the impact of the 2004 EU-enlargement on enterprise performance and the exporting behavior of German service enterprises in Germany’s eastern border region. Our results from regression adjusted difference-in-differences-estimators combined with matching and panel data from official statistics suggest that the EU-enlargement resulted in a decline by circa 1 percent in the turnover and the profitability of large enterprises in the border region, respectively. For small enterprises, we find an annual increase in turnover by 2.7% in both 2004 and 2005 and an annual decrease in profitability by 1.8 and 2.6 percentage points in 2004 and 2005 respectively.EU-enlargement, enterprise performance, exports
Why more West than East German fimrs export
No full textUsing unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.Exports, micro data, West Germany, East Germany
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