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Openness and Technological Innovationsin Developing Countries:Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

States during the 1990s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …

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Demography and Innovative Entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Can Institutional Change Impact High-Technology Firm Growth?: Evidence from Germany's Neuer Markt

Elston, Julie Ann; Audretsch, David B. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2004

and innovation within the German economy... …

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Innovation Networks of High Tech SMES: Creation of Knowledge but no Creation of Value

Winters, Rob; Stam, Erik - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

This paper analyses the effects of innovation networks on product and pro-cess innovation and sales growth of high … technology SMEs. Innovation net-works are positively related to both product and process innovation, i.e. know-ledge creation …. One exception is the negative effect of innovation networks with suppliers on product innovation. Older SMEs are more …

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies

Ács, Zoltán; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in the Rust Belt

Acs, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new knowledge and economically useful knowledge. It identifies both new ventures and incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical work has shown that new firms are more proficient at...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm : First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Informal Employment Relationships and LaborMarket Segmentation in Transition Economies:Evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860476

From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...

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