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What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany

Arntz, Melanie - 2008

of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial …. Regional differentials in non-pecuniary assets slightly contribute to spatial sorting processes in Germany. Such differences in … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? What Drives the Skill-Composition of Labor Flows in Germany?

Arntz, Melanie - 2018

This paper examines the determinants of gross labor flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage-maximizing process may be inadequate due to regional wage rigidities that result from central wage bargaining. In such a context, the framework that has been developed by Borjas...

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What Old Stagers Could Teach Us – Examining Age Complementarities in Regional Innovation Systems

Arntz, Melanie - 2014

Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce …

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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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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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Bounds Analysis of Competing Risks : A Nonparametric Evaluation of the Effect of Unemployment Benefits on Migration in Germany

Arntz, Melanie; Lo, Simon; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2008

migration of unemployed workers in Germany. Our findings weakly indicate that reducing the entitlement length for unemployment …

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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an Age Framework

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2008

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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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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License Expenditures of Incumbents and Potential Entrants : An Empirical Analysis of Firm Behavior

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

This paper presents the results of an empirical test concerning the auction model of Gilbert and Newbery (1982). The study uses data on German companies in order to analyze expenditures for technology licenses. Aside of standard control variables the motives for innovation expenditures are also...

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