This paper 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. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001-03 for the first time are compared to firms that did not relocate activities abroad before ...
This paper is a portrait of the series European Data Watch that is published in Schmollers Jahrbuch / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies since 2000. Contributions to this series describe data for persons or firms that can be used in empirical research in economics and the social sciences, and document how these data can be accessed.
It is still not well understood how and why developmental trajectories of self-esteem change, particularly in late life. We investigated the role of resources for self-esteem change across adulthood. In detail, we explored between-person differences in self-esteem levels and change in relation to resources with participants who ranged in age from 17 to 100 years. Study 1 consisted of a cross-sectional ...