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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies
García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond toChanges in Local Labor Supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbedby the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factorprices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the moreabundant skill group more...
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The Interdependence of R&D Activity andDebt Financing of Young Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms.Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firmcharacteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explainingyoung firms’...
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