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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228821
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384
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Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Inventors (But Never Asked): Evidence from the PatVal-EU Survey
Harhoff, Dietmar; Hoisl, Karin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
characteristics of European inventors, the sources of their knowledge, the importance of formal and informal collaborations, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187255
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Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States
Choi, Kate H.; Tienda, Marta; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246533
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Migrant Youths‘ Educational Achievement: The Role of Institutions
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias; Stillman, Steven - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011
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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Personalized medicine as innovation : what can Germany learn from the USA
Kichko, Katharina - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012065287
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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms
Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098236
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The Development of Employers’ Training Investments Over Time – A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data
Goerlitz, Katja - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2009
Using establishment data covering the time period 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates trends of employer-sponsored further training in Germany, with a focus on the share of establishments investing in training. In West and East Germany alike I find a positive time trend in the share of...
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Necessity and Opportunity Entrepreneurs and their Duration in Self-employment: Evidence from German Micro Data
Block, Jörn H.; Sandner, Philipp G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP), we analyze whether necessity entrepreneurs differ from opportunity entrepreneurs in terms of self-employment duration. Using univariate statistics, we find that opportunity entrepreneurs remain in self-employment longer than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157503
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Why training older employees is less effective
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
This paper shows that training of older employees is less effective. Training effectiveness is measured with respect to key dimensions such as career development, earnings, adoption of new skills, flexibility or job security. Older employees also pursue less ambitious goals with their training...
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