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Separating Wheat and Chaff : Age-Specific Staffing Strategies and Innovative Performance at the Firm Level

Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011

establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …

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Precocious Inventors : Early Patenting Success and Lifetime Inventive Performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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The Knowledge Production of 'R' and 'D'

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Thorwarth, Suzanne - 2013

or output of a knowledge production function. We suggest that the productivity of research in patent production functions … to patentable knowledge, and development happens after the initial research phase that may have led to a patent. Instead … of using data on R&D, we separate the knowledge creating process into 'R' and 'D'. This data stems from R&D surveys of …

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Why Training Older Employees is Less Effective

Zwick, Thomas - 2011

This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...

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Good Occupation - Bad Occupation? The Quality of Apprenticeship Training

Göggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...

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Poaching and Firm-Sponsored Training : First Clean Evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employeesm ay hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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Aggregate Unemployment Decreases Individual Returns to Education

Ammermüller, Andreas; Kuckulenz, Anja; Zwick, Thomas - 2008

On the basis of a theoretical model, we argue that higher aggregate unemployment affects individual returns to education. We therefore include aggregate unemployment and an interaction term between unemployment and the individual education level in a standard Mincer equation. Our results show...

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Workers into Managers - Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

Zwick, Thomas - 2018

This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have difficulties with their new leadership-related tasks. Higher levels of leadership competence are...

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University Spinoffs and the 'Performance Premium'

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2013

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

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Youth Unemployment After Apprenticeship Training and Individual, Occupation and Training Employer Characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2014

This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of long-term unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...

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