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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis
Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509664
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The Spatial Diffusion of a Knowledge Base-Laser Technology Research in West Germany, 1960-2005
Fritsch, Michael; Medrano, Luis F. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … of laser knowledge was especially prevalent in large agglomerations. While we cannot detect knowledge spillovers from … research later, indicating the accumulation of knowledge generated in previous periods. Our results highlight the role of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511324
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The global entrepreneurship index (GEINDEX)
Ács, Zoltán J.; Szerb, László - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
drive innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032006
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Von der Markttheorie zur Empirie längerfristigen Märktewandels
Koch, Lambert T. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
closely connected with changing knowledge and property rights. The internationalization of markets as a consequence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616514
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Personalized medicine as innovation : what can Germany learn from the USA
Kichko, Katharina - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065287
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Returns to Education and Risky Financial Investment
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl; Garino, Gaia - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006
The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between wages, human capital and investment in financial assets with risky returns at the individual level. To explore this relationship from an international perspective, we analyse individual level data from the British Household Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005463785
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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005
Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this abstract concept. We survey the psychological literature on cross-cultural IQ tests, and conclude that modern intelligence tests are well-suited for measuring an important form of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407739
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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408449
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Social Interaction and Intergenerational Skill Transfer
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2006
We explore the relationship between educational attainment and social interaction using individual level data from the British National Child Development Study. To be specific, we analyze whether an intergenerational aspect to this relationship exists by examining the relationship between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593077
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The Over-Education of UK Immigrants and Minority Ethnic Groups: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey.
Lindley, Joanne Kathryn - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005593089