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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda; Brixy, Udo; Naudé, Wim; Gries, Thomas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates the …
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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
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Training Propensity of Start-ups in Switzerland - A Study Based on Data for the Start-up Cohort 1996-97
Arvanitis, Spyros; Stucki, Tobias - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
This study is based on data of a cohort of Swiss firms that were founded in 1996/97. In the year 2000 data were collected by means of a postal survey among those firms, which still existed by that time. In 2003 and 2006 two further surveys were conducted among the participants of the respective...
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Are Firm Innovativeness and Firm Age Relevant for the Supply of Vocational Training? – A Study Based on Swiss Micro Data
Arvanitis, Spyros - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2008
intensity of apprentice training as measured by the employment share of apprentices. Innovation, firm age and competition … employment, innovation activities, firm age, labour costs, capital intensity, and competitive pressures all play a positive or …
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Analyzing educational achievement differences between second-generation immigrants: Comparing Germany and German-speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes S. - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210396
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Efficiency of Health Investment: Education or Intelligence?
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
In this paper we hypothesize that education is associated with a higher efficiency of health investment, yet that this efficiency advantage is solely driven by intelligence. We operationalize efficiency of health investment as the probability of dying conditional on a certain hospital diagnosis,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255933
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Education and Health: The Role of Cognitive Ability
Bijwaard, Govert; Kippersluis, Hans van; Veenman, Justus - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We aim to disentangle the relative contributions of (i) cognitive ability, and (ii) education on health and mortality using a structural equation model suggested by Conti et al. (2010). We extend their model by allowing for a duration dependent variable, and an ordinal educational variable. Data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257088
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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption
Koç, Hale; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257451
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A Theory of Education and Health
Galama, Titus J.; Kippersluis, Hans van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
This paper presents a unified theory of human capital with both health capital and, what we term, skill capital endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model highlights similarities and differences in these two...
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