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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …

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University research alliances, absorptive capacity, and the contribution of startups to employment growths

Toole, Andrew A.; Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian - 2014

This paper examines how university research alliances and other cooperative links with universities contribute to startup employment growth. We argue that “scientific absorptive capacity” at the startup is critical for reaping the benefits from university research alliances, but not...

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How much does a year off cost? : estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Wage penalties for career interruptions : an empirical analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees' entire...

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University spinoffs and the “performance premium”

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - 2013

The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696949

Haftungsregeln und Innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses the incentives for innovation when liability is limited or not. Clearly innovative activity …

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Management control and innovative activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2000

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative activities. There are opposing effects concerning R&D intensity in the manager-controlled firm. Our study on the determinants of R&D intensity presents empirical results concerning...

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Die Auswirkung der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001 - Diese Version: Oktober 2001

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

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The effects of public R&D subsidies on firms' innovation activities : the case of Eastern Germany

Almus, Matthias; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002 - This version: August 2002

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

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Firm leadership and innovative performance : evidence from seven EU Countries

Kraft, Kornelius; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002 - This Version: March 2002

This paper considers the effect of different firm leadership on the innovative performance of firms from seven EU countries. We investigate whether owner-led or manager-led firms achieve a larger share of their turnover with product innovations. Economic theory does not propose clear answers to...

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