Showing 1 - 10 of 38
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298693
. Dagegen weist Deutschland bei wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen eine deutliche Schwäche auf. Das betrifft auch deren … aufnehmen. Im Zeitraum von 2011 bis 2021 sind für Deutschland stabile komparative Vorteile in der Außenhandelsspezialisierung … mit forschungsintensiven Waren zu beobachten. Traditionell ist Deutschland im Segment der hochwertigen Technologie positiv …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000508
This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793866
Die Studie stellt die verbreitete These, die seit 2001 trotz konjunktureller Schwäche anhaltend hohe Inflationsrate im Euroraum sei die Folge struktureller Rigiditäten, in Frage. Anhänger dieser These sehen in Strukturreformen, die diese Rigiditäten beseitigen, die wichtigste Voraussetzung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851509
This paper investigates the causes behind the euro debt crisis, particularly Germany's role in it. It is argued that the crisis is not primarily a "sovereign debt crisis" but rather a (twin) banking and balance of payments crisis. Intra-area competitiveness and current account imbalances, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533362
Highlighting that France and Germany held largely contradicting hopes and aspirations for Europe's common currency, this paper analyzes how the resulting euro contradiction conditioned the ongoing euro crisis as well as current strategies to resolve it. While Germany generally prevailed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732260
This paper investigates Germany's vulnerability to the ongoing Euroland crisis. In 2010-11, Germany experienced a strong rebound from the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The Euroland crisis then meant record low interest rates and a depressed euro that boosted German extra-area exports. But...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757118
Der Beitrag untersucht, inwieweit hinter der oft konstatierten Investitionsschwäche der europäischen Wirtschaft eine Strukturverschiebung von materiellen zu immateriellen Investitionen steht. Da letztere nur zum Teil unter den Investitionsbegriff der Volkswirtschaftlichen Gesamtrechnung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456957
This paper studies the impact of environmental innovation on employment growth using firm-level data for 16 European countries and the period 2006-2008. It extends the model by Harrison et al (2008) in order to distinguish between employment effects of environmental and non-environmental product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011487783
A growing literature investigates how firms' innovation input reacts to changes in the business cycle. However, so far there is no evidence whether there is cyclicality in the effects of innovation on firm performance as well. In this paper, we investigate the employment effects of innovations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563081