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We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
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We analyze the impact of profit sharing on the share of workers receiving training. An effect is plausible because: 1) profit sharing is a credible commitment by firms to reward firm-specific skills acquired by formal or informal training, 2) profit sharing may reduce turnover and increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282261
migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
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This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm's employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm's foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …
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creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by … diffusion of innovation activity, and the spatial selectivity of immigrants' location choices, we take account of spatial …
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migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323544
regulations, the resulting decision by a polluting firm to upgrade its capital stock, and the impact of innovation on this … in innovation on the polluting firm's steady-state capital stock. Fourth, they analyze the impact of an anticipated … increase in innovation on the polluting firm's steady-state capital stock. Finally, the authors discuss the relationship …
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. In the deterministic model, R&D in time t surely leads to an innovation in time t + 1. In this setting, the authors show … hence achieves a larger size of innovation and a higher growth rate. Next, in the stochastic model, R&D in time t … probabilistically leads to an innovation in time t + 1. In this setting, the authors first define the equilibrium and the steady state …
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. In the deterministic model, R&D in time t surely leads to an innovation in time t + 1. In this setting, the authors show … hence achieves a larger size of innovation and a higher growth rate. Next, in the stochastic model, R&D in time t … probabilistically leads to an innovation in time t + 1. In this setting, the authors first define the equilibrium and the steady state …
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