24-November-2015
German
Die Produktivitätsschwäche der Industrielän-der: Erklärungsansätze und Handlungsbedarf
This paper, by, Michael Heise, Arne Holzhausen, Rolf Schneider, explains the productivity weakness of the industrialized countries.
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1-October-2015
German
1-July-2015
English
Cultural diversity and plant-level productivity
Using comprehensive data for German establishments, Michaela Trax, Stephan Brunow, and Jens Suedekum estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity.
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1-June-2015
English
Macroeconomic imbalances Country Report – Germany 2015
This Country Report assesses Germany’s economy against the background of the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey. It also explores ways to maximise the impact of public resources and unlock private investment. Finally, it assesses Germany in the light of the findings of the 2015 Alert Mechanism Report, in which the Commission found it useful to further examine the persistence of imbalances or their unwinding.
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1-January-2015
English
Working time accounts and firm performance in Germany
This study, by Lutz Bellmann and Olaf Hübler, investigates whether working time accounts affect the performance of German establishments based on the Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research.
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1-January-2015
English
Structural change and total factor productivity: Evidence from Germany
This paper, by Henze, Philipp, uses a long time series of German employment data to test the theory of Ngai & Pissarides (2007). The theory suggests that the shift of employment shares from manufacturing to services is due to divergent growth rates of total factor productivity (TFP) in the two sectors. To test the theoretical predictions, I use the "Establishment History Panel" together with sectoral data on total factor productivity.
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1-December-2014
English
From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany’s Resurgent Economy
This article, by Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Schönberg, and Alexandra Spitz-Oener, presents evidence that the specific governance structure of the German labor market institutions allowed them to react flexibly in a time of extraordinary economic circumstances, and that this distinctive characteristic of its labor market institutions has been the main reason for Germany’s economic success over the last decade.
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1-May-2014
German
Analyse der Ansatzpunkte der volkswirtschaftlichen Produktivitätsanalyse von wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen in der amtlichen Statistik
This report, by Alexander Eickelpasch and Georg Erber, analyses Productivity of knowledge intensive services in official statistics
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6-February-2014
English
Low-productive exporters are high-quality exporters. Evidence from Germany
This paper, by Joachim Wagner, documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive exporters.
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1-September-2013
English
Macroeconomic Evaluation of Labor Market Reform in Germany
This paper, by Tom Krebs and Martin Scheffel, focuses on far-reaching labor market reforms that the German government implemented between 2003-2005,so-called Hartz reforms, especially the Hartz IV law. The authors develop a macroeconomic model, calibrate the model economy to German data and institutions, and use it to simulate the effects of the Hartz reforms, in particular Hartz IV, on the German labor market.