1-August-2012
English
Innovation and Exports of German Business Services Enterprises: First evidence from a new type of firm data
This paper, by Alexander Vogel and Joachim Wagner, contributes to the literature by providing the first evidence on the link between innovation activities and exports of German business services firms based on a large representative longitudinal sample of enterprises.
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1-December-2010
German
Statistische Analyse des Einflusses von Informationsund Kommunikationstechnologien auf die Produktivität von Unternehmen
This report is a Statistical analysis of the influence of information and communication technologies on the productivity of companies
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19-October-2010
English
THE GERMAN LABOUR MARKET MIRACLE
This paper, by Jens Boysen-Hogrefe and Dominik Groll, lays out the various reasons for the exceptional performance of the German labour market during and after the Great Recession of 2008/9.
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23-December-2009
English
Productivity Effects of Business Process Outsourcing A Firm-level Investigation Based on Panel Data
This paper, by Jörg Ohnemus, analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed.
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1-December-2009
English
Offshoring and Firm Performance: Self-Selection, Effects on Performance, or Both?
This paper, by Joachim Wagner, uses unique new data for German manufacturing enterprises from matched regular surveys and a special purpose survey to investigate the causal effect of relocation of activities to a foreign country on various dimensions of firm performance.
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1-December-2008
English
Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
This paper, by Irene Bertschek and Jenny Meyer, provides empirical evidence on the question whether rms' IT-enabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce.
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1-January-2008
German
Der deutsche Produktivitätsabschwung: Ursachenforschung auf Branchenebene
Productivity growth in Germany has been falling since 1992. A productivity development database, developed by a German - US collaboration since 2005, found that Germany’s increased injection of capital into its IT sector after 1995 yielded some positive effect on the country’s productivity growth, but was insufficient to balance the strongly negative productivity growth of non-IT-intensive sectors. Theo S. Eicher and Thomas Strobel
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1-January-2008
English
Service Offshoring and Productivity in Western Europe
Using comparable industry-level data for nine Western European countries, this paper, by Rosario Crinò, finds that the international relocation of service activities (service offshoring) exerts positive and economically large effects on domestic productivity.
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1-March-2007
English
Entry, Exit and Productivity: Empirical Results for German Manufacturing Industries
This report on Entry, Exit and Productivity, by Joachim Wagner, replicates the study from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005), using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995-2002).
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1-January-2007
English
SOURCES OF THE GERMAN PRODUCTIVITY DEMISE TRACING THE EFFECTS OF INDUSTRY-LEVEL ICT INVESTMENT
This paper, by THEO S. EICHER and OLIVER ROEHN, examines the sources of Germany’s productivity demise using the "ifo industry growth accounting database" that provides detailed industry-level investment information.