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 ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4605)
| Joachim Wagner