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

Kraft, Kornelius - 2012

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...

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Die Bedeutung der Automobilindustrie für die deutsche Volkswirtschaft im europäischen Kontext : Endbericht an das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie ; (Projekt Nr. 29...

Legler, Harald; Gehrke, Birgit; Krawczyk, Olaf; … - 2009

Im Blickfeld dieser Studie stand die wirtschaftliche Bedeutung der Automobilindustrie in Deutschland im langfristigen … Bedeutung für den Forschungs- und Innovationsstandort Deutschland. Die Automobilindustrie wurde dabei nicht isoliert betrachtet … Deutschland mit ein. Darüber hinaus wurde der Rolle des inländischen Absatzmarktes und der Bedeutung des Premiumsegments für die …

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The impact of regulation-driven environmental innovation on innovation success and firm performance

Rennings, Klaus; Rammer, Christian - 2010

The impact of environmental innovations on firm performance is ambiguous. On the one hand, regulatory-driven environmental innovation may impose additional costs to firms and lower their profits. On the other hand, eco-innovators could profit from lower uncertainty in innovation due to...

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Systemevaluierung KMU-innovativ : Begleit- und Wirkungsforschung zur Hightech-Strategie: ; Abschlussbericht

Rammer, Christian; Aschhoff, Birgit; Crass, Dirk; … - 2011

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Innovation budgeting over the business cycle and innovation performance

Hud, Martin; Rammer, Christian - 2015

The global economic crisis of 2008/2009 hit many firms hard. Faced with rapidly declining sales and highly uncertain economic prospects, firms had to cut costs and reconsider their business strategies. With respect to innovation, cost cutting often means to stop or underresource innovation...

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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria

Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016

This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm-level data from three countries with similar industry...

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