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States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …
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establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
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representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …
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The claim that marriage is a venue for status exchange of achieved traits, like education, and ascribed attributes, notably race and ethnic membership, has regained traction in the social stratifi cation literature. Most studies that consider status exchanges ignore birthplace as a social...
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We use 2009 Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) data to link institutional arrangements in OECD countries to the disparity in reading, math, and science test scores for migrant and native-born students. We find that achievement gaps are larger for those migrant youths who arrive...
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innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …
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Standard search models are unreliable for structural inference of the underlying sources ofwage inequality because they are inconsistent with observed residual wage dispersion. Weaddress this issue by modeling skill development and duration dependence in unemploymentbenefits in a random on the...
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This paper addresses the question to which extent the complementarity between educationand training can be attributed to differences in observable characteristics, i.e. to individual,job and firm specific characteristics. The novelty of this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered...
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