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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444923
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The power of individual-level drivers of inventive performance
Zwick, Thomas; Frosch, Katharina; Hoisl, Karin; … - 2015
Based on an established theoretical framework of the drivers of inventive performance, the so-called KSAO (Knowledge …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381965
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011 - This version: June 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation …. -- Workforce aging ; staffing strategies ; innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232253
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The knowledge production of 'R' and 'D'
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728577
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The Intergenerational Overlap and Human Capital Formation
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2004
We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life-expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
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Effects of Securities Transaction Taxes on Depth and Bid-Ask Spread
Stark, Oded - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2003
Although the phenomenon of refugee flows is not devoid of economic connotations, it has so far been investigated primarily by political scientists and sociologists. The analytical tools of economic inquiry have not yet been applied to this subject, although it stands to reason that such a study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764161
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Human Capital Formation, Asymmetric Information, and the Dynamics of International Migration
Stark, Oded; Chau, Nancy H. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1998
We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure of incentives: Higher returns to skills in the foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764174
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Inducing Human Capital Formation: Migration as a Substitute for Subsidies
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2001
When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies for the formation of human capital, conditional on the subsidy being self-financed by tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764230
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A Brain Gain with a Brain Drain
Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; Prskawetz, Alexia - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1997
We study human capital depletion and formation in an economy open to out-migration, as opposed to an economy which is closed. Under the natural assumption of asymmetric information, the enlarged opportunities and the associated different structure of incentives can give rise to a brain gain in...
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