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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 - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
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Innovation, Decentralization, and Planning in a Multi-Region Model of Schumpeterian Economic Growth
Batabyal, Amit; Nijkamp, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We study innovation and the resulting Schumpeterian economic growth that this innovation gives rise to in a model with … balanced growth path (BGP) allocations and the equilibrium of interest. Second, we stipulate the form of the innovation … circumstances in which there is either too much or too little innovation in (i) the ith region, (ii) the aggregate economy of N>2 …
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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 …
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Regional Inequality and Human Capital Quality: The Impact of Technology on the Arrival Rate of Employment Offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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Heterogeneous Wage Effects of Apprenticeship Training
Zwick, Thomas; Goeggel, Kathrin - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2011
Relatively small average wage effects of employer and occupation changes after apprenticeship training mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling backgrounds. Employer and occupation changers in industrial occupations enjoy large wage advantages,...
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How Acid are Lemons? Adverse Selection and Signalling for Skilled Labour Market Entrants
Wagner, Robert; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012
This paper for the first time jointly analyses the consequences of adverse selection, signalling and indices on entry wages of skilled employees. It uses German linked employer employee panel data (LIAB) and introduces a measure for relative productivity of skilled job applicants based on...
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - Economics Department, Bryan School of Business and Economics - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs’ human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318570
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323395
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Creativity and the Family Tree: Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert N.; Ruhm, Christopher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In this paper we show that the patenting behavior of creative entrepreneurs is correlated with the patenting behavior of their fathers, which we refer to as a source of the entrepreneurs' human capital endowments. Our argument for this relationship follows from established theories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323429
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POACHING AND FIRM SPONSORED TRAINING: FIRST CLEAN EVIDENCE
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Zwick, Thomas - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may 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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