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Occupational Sex Segregation and Management-Level Wages in Germany: What Role Does Firm Size Play?

Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed … managers in predominantly female occupations are moderated by firm size. Drawing on economic and organizational approaches and … the devaluation of women's work, we find wage penalties for female occupations in management only in large firms. This …

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Interrelationships among Locus of Control and Years in Management and Unemployment: Differences by Gender

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

This paper focuses on gender differences in the role played by locus of control within a model that predicts outcomes for men and women at two opposite poles of the labour market: high level managerial / leadership positions and unemployment. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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Success in the University Admission Process in Germany: Regional Provenance Matters

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

School education in Germany is under the responsibility of the federal states and as a consequence average grades differ widely across regions. Since school leavers apply nationwide for admission to university, regional provenance may thus matter a lot for the success probability in the...

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Anreize wirken: deutsche Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute im Aufwind

Ketzler, Rolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

Vor zehn Jahren hat der deutsche Wissenschaftsrat mit seiner Forderung nach einer Verstärkung der akademischen Forschungsleistungen an den deutschen Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten einen Regimewechsel eingeleitet. Der Anstoß wurde von der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, der Dachgesellschaft der...

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Consolidating the Water Industry: An Analysis of the Potential Gains from Horizontal Integration in a Conditional Efficiency Framework

Zschille, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

The German potable water supply industry is regarded as being highly fragmented, thus inhibiting high potentials for efficiency improvements through consolidation. Focusing on a hypothetical restructuring of the industry, we apply Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to analyze the potential...

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Technology Portfolio and Market Value

Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

This paper discusses the impact of a firm's technology portfolio on its market value. Two concepts are used to characterize a firm's portfolio: the number of technological fields and the degree of relatedness within the portfolio characterized by the amount of joint occurrences of patents in...

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Do External Technology Acquisitions Matter for Innovative Efficiency and Productivity?

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

To quickly adapt to technological change and developments, and thus remain competitive, firms increasingly resort to the use of external technology. This paper investigates whether and to what extent the acquisition of external disembodied technology affects the efficiency and productivity in...

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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...

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Allocative Efficiency Measurement Revisited: Do We Really Need Input Prices?

Badunenko, Oleg; Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

The traditional approach to measuring allocative efficiency is based on input prices, which are rarely known at the firm level. This paper proposes a new approach to measure allocative efficiency which is based on the output-oriented distance to the frontier in a profit - technical efficiency...

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Hard and Soft Locational Factors, Innovativeness and Firm Performance: An Empirical Test of Porter's Diamond Model at the Micro-Level

Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper investigates predictions of Porter's Diamond model regarding the impact of locational factors on innovativeness and performance at the firm level. We formulate a structural equation model based on the relationships between locational conditions, e.g., transportation infrastructure,...

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