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Impact of educational and religious homogamy on marital stability

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009

Using a rich panel data set from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we test whether spouses who are similar to each other in certain respects have a lower probability of divorce than dissimilar spouses. We focus on the effect of homogamy with respect to education and church attendance. Gary...

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Effect of labor division between wife and husband on the risk of divorce: evidence from German data

Kraft, Kornelius; Neimann, Stefanie - 2009

Using German panel data from 1984 to 2007, we analyze the impact of labor division between husband and wife on the risk of divorce. Gary Becker's theory of marriage predicts that specialization in domestic and market work, respectively, reduces the risk of separation. Traditionally, the...

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Minimum Wages and Competition : The Case of the German Roofing Sector

Kraft, Kornelius - 2012

East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … some type of evasion strategy in eastern Germany, particularly since wages for skilled roofers declined towards the minimum …

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry – a Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S and apply system GMM in order to solve … compensation in both countries. The impact of foreign competition on payperformance sensitivity differs between the US and Germany …

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Productivity and Distribution Effects of Codetermination in an Efficient Bargaining

Kraft, Kornelius - 2017

Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might affect the efficiency of production and the bargaining power of labor. Based on a model that covers both efficient bargaining and employment bargaining a simple equation is...

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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015

Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful Ramp;D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively...

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Capital Control, Debt Financing and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2014

The present paper first discusses theoretically the different incentives of manager- versus owner-controlled firms for investment into innovative activity. In addition, the role of debt financing is analyzed. Subsequently the results from an empirical study on the determinants of innovative...

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The Effect of Entry on R&D Investment of Leaders : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius; Etro, Federico - 2015

We develop a simple model of competition for the market that shows that, contrary to the Arrow view, endogenous entry threat in a market induces the average firm to invest less in R&D and the incumbent leader to invest more. We test these predictions with a Tobit model based on a unique dataset...

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A Test of the Quality of Concentration Indices

Heger, Diana; Kraft, Kornelius - 2008

Theory predicts a positive relationship between market concentration and profitability in most scenarios. In empirical work, however, this relation is frequently not found or only a weak connection is observed. We compare the performance of concentration and market share variables, which are...

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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data

Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...

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