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Going on the Long Race? - Employment Duration and (De)Regulation of Experimental Stochastic Labor Markets

Berninghaus, Siegfried; Bleich, Sabrina; Güth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

If the future market wage is uncertain, engaging in long-term employment is risky, with the risk depending on how regulated the labor market is. In our experiment long-term employment can result either from offering long-term contracts or from repeatedly and mutually opting for rematching....

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Wage Flexibility in Ongoing Employment Relations - An Experiment with a Stochastic Labor Market -

Berninghaus, Siegfried K.; Bleich, Sabrina; Gueth, Werner - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Facing a stochastic market wage, which is independent of their own hiring policy, employers offer contracts specifying ï¬xed wage, revenue share and employment duration. In ongoing employment relations it depends on the treatment whether ï¬xed wages can be only increased or also decreased....

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Regional Effects on Cooperative Innovation Activities and the Related Variety of Regional Knowledge Bases

Cantner, Uwe; Meder, Andreas - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

effects of cooperative innovation activities and analyzes furthermore how dif- ferent dimensions of regional knowledge affect …The literature on "Innovation Systems" is divided into several directories. Dif- ferences occur through the definition … the regional effects on coopera- tive innovation activities. We find evidence that the related variety of knowl- edge …

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Housing and Labor Market Connections: the Portuguese Case

Carvalho, Pedro Guedes - EconWPA - 2002

European housing systems - Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece Œ under the assumption that they had a different path other than …

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Housing Demand in Portugal

Carvalho, Pedro Guedes - EconWPA - 2003

In a former study (Carvalho 1995) we modeled the housing market in Portugal in a classic cross section framework and …

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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms

Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

importance of employee training practices undertaken in firms as an important tool for human resource and knowledge management … establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when …

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Do Firms Benefit from Complementarity Effect in R&D and What Drives their R&D Strategy Choices?

Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...

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The Regional Dimension of Sectoral Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation of Two Specialised Supplier and Two Science-Based Industries

Cantner, Uwe; Bürger, Matthias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The aim of this paper is to test how geographical and technological proximity relate to a particular industry's innovative output. Two mechanisms are therefore tested, i.e. agglomeration economies and the regional exploitation of technological proximity. A new dataset is applied, which includes...

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The effects of knowledge management on innovative success - an empirical analysis of German firms

Cantner, Uwe; Joel, Kristin; Schmidt, Tobias - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on the innovation success of firms in Germany …. Using a matching procedure on data from the German Innovation Survey of 2003 ("Mannheim Innovation Panel"), we pair firms … applying knowledge management with twin firms with similar characteristics not applying knowledge management. Our focus is on …

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Regional Dynamics of Innovation Investigating the Co-Evolution of Patents, R&D, and Employment

Bürger, Matthias; Brökel, Tom; Coad, Alex - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

we do not find those effects for the other industries due to their idiosyncratic innovation and patenting behaviour. …

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