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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

How much of the income-based gaps in cognitive ability and academic achievement could be closed by a two-year, center-based early childhood education intervention? Data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned treatment to low birth weight children from both...

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Can Intensive Early Childhood Intervention Programs Eliminate Income-Based Cognitive and Achievement Gaps?

Duncan, Greg J.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

By how much would an intensive two-year center-based Abecedarian-type intervention, begun at age one, close income-based gaps in cognitive ability and school readiness? To generate estimates, we draw data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), which randomly assigned a treatment...

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The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment Flows to the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas; Davis, Rhona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...

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Interpreting the Evidence on Life Cycle Skill Formation

Cunha, Flavio; Heckman, James J.; Lochner, Lance; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper presents economic models of child development that capture the essence of recent findings from the empirical literature on skill formation. The goal of this essay is to provide a theoretical framework for interpreting the evidence from a vast empirical literature, for guiding the next...

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Labor Market Policy Options of the Kurdistan Regional Government

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns of the labor market outcomes in the region. In the first step, each of the determinants of...

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Human Well-being and In-Work Benefits: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Dorsett, Richard; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Many politicians believe they can intervene in the economy to improve people's lives. But can they? In a social experiment carried out in the United Kingdom, extensive in-work support was randomly assigned among 16,000 disadvantaged people. We follow a sub-sample of 3,500 single parents for 5...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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Is Innovative Firm Behavior Correlated with Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce? Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of...

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The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

Fryges, Helmut; Kohn, Karsten; Ullrich, Katrin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms'...

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