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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper investigates the link between outsourcing and...

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Trust-based Work-time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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Science parks, knowledge spillovers, and firms' innovative performance: evidence from Finland

Squicciarini, Mariagrazia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what extent locating inside a science park relates to the innovative output of tenant firms. The simple assessment methodology proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as...

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Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms

Braun, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies have, however, primarily focused on firm-level bargaining and on markets that are characterised by a small and fixed number of identical firms. This paper studies how different...

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Corruption and Productivity Firm-level Evidence from the BEEPS Survey

Rosa, Donato De; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked...

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Emissions embodied in Chinese exports taking into account the special export structure of China

Weitzel, Matthias; Ma, Tao - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

Quantification of CO2 emissions embodied in China's trade is important for an informed debate on whom to blame for the … report emissions embodied in Chinese imports used for intermediate production of exports by combining calculations for China …

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An Inquiry into the Determinants of Graduate Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and Guangzhou (Mainland China)

Bickenbach, Frank; Dohse, Dirk Christian; Liu, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

determining entrepreneurial intentions of students in Hong Kong and in Guangzhou (mainland China). The two cities are culturally …

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Determinants of Technology Transfer through CDM: the Case of China

Weitzel, Matthias; Liu, Wan-Hsin; Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

China. China is by far the largest host country of CDM projects and it is therefore crucial to understand the factors that …

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Estimating the Marginal Abatement Costs of Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China: A Parametric Analysis

DU, Limin; Hanley, Aoife; WEI, Chu - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper investigates the technical inefficiency, shadow price and substitution elasticity of CO2 emissions of China … output distance function, we show that China’s technical inefficiency increases over the period implying further scope for CO …). Additionally, increasingly steep substitution elasticity highlights the difficult reality of reducing China’s CO2 emissions …

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