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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services : an empirical assessment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out …In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …

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The firms behind the regions : analysis of regional innovation performance in Portugal by external logistic biplots

Noronha, Teresa de; Galinde, Purificación Vicente; … - 2013

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Modelling R&D and innovation support systems : analysis of regional cluster structures in innovation in Portugal

Noronha, Teresa de; Galindo, Purificación Vicente; … - 2013

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Kleine und mittlere Unternehmen : Stütze der gewerblichen Wirtschaft in Europa

Schiersch, Alexander; Kritikos, Alexander - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 13, pp. 277-287

Die kleinen und mittelgroßen Unternehmen (KMU) rücken immer stärker ins Zentrum der europäischen und deutschen Wirtschaftspolitik. Die Europäische Union verabschiedete 2008 den Small Business Act, der bessere Rahmenbedingungen für die kleineren Unternehmen schaffen soll. Auch die...

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Lower wages for less hours? : a simultaneous wage-hours model for Germany

Wolf, Elke - 2000

In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly a¤ected by the working hours. In...

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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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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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Wolf, Elke - 2001

In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...

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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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Space and knowledge spillovers in European regions : the impact of different forms of proximity on spatial knowledge diffusion

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

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