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Public Subsidy on Education and Welfare in Small OECD Countries: A Theoretical and Empirical Reconciliation

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Biswas, Anindya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skill acquirement for achieving higher economic growth in the future. However, empirical observations on small OECD countries over the period 2001-2011 tell somewhat a different story. This study makes an attempt...

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Does Public Assistance for Skills Formation Necessarily Improve Wage Inequality in the Future?

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. This paper attempts to explore the validity of this traditional perception with the help of a two-sector, specific factor general...

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Public Subsidy on Education, Welfare, and Wage Inequality in a Small Open Developed Economy: A Two-period Analysis

Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skill acquirement for achieving higher economic growth and improving relative wage inequality in the future. However, empirical observations on certain small OECD countries over the period 2000-2011 tell somewhat...

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Skill formation, public expenditure on education and wage inequality: theory and evidence

Biswas, Anindya; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

As per the conventional wisdom there should be provision for public assistance for skills acquirement for improving relative wage inequality in the future. Empirical observations on some prominent small OECD countries, however, indicate that the relationship between wage inequality and public...

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Arbeitszeitarrangements - Neue Ergebnisse aus der nationalen Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02 im Zeitvergleich zu 1991/92

Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Der Diskussion um neue Arbeitszeitarrangements und flexible Arbeitszeiten fehlt bislang die empirische Grundlage auf der Basis von personenbezogenen Mikrodaten. Gegenstand unserer Studie Arbeit ist es, Abweichungen vom Normalarbeitstag in zwei Dimensionen zu untersuchen: zum einen in der...

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Wer arbeitet wann? Arbeitszeitarrangements von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten: Eine mikroökonometrische Analyse deutscher Zeitbudgetdaten

Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Mit der zeitlichen Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsmärkte und dem damit verbundenen Rückzug des Normalarbeitstages treten neue Muster von Arbeitszeit auf. Auf Basis der deutschen Zeitbudgeterhebung 1991/92 sollen Arbeitszeiten von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten untersucht werden....

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Timing, Fragmentation of Work and Income Inequality - An Earnings Treatment Effects Approach

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Traditional welfare analyses based on money income needs to be broadened by its time dimension. In the course of time the traditional full-time work is diminishing and new labour arrangements are discussed (keyword: flexible labour markets). Our study is contributing to economic well-being by...

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Arbeitszeitarrangements und Entlohnung Ein Treatment-Effects-Ansatz für Freiberufler, Unternehmer und abhängig Beschäftigte

Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Traditionelle Wohlfahrtsanalysen, die sich alleine auf monetäre Einkommensangaben stützen, bedürfen der Erweiterung um die zeitliche Dimension, zumal auch in den vergangenen Jahren der Vollzeitarbeitstag anderen, flexibleren Arbeitszeitformen gewichen ist. Mit unserem Fokus auf die Frage, wer...

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Innovation in Nigerian SMEs: types and impact

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Olamade, O; Adeniyi, A; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper seeks to explore the types of innovation that are predominant in SMEs in developing countries and to … investigate the impact of these innovations on different dimensions of firm performance based on an industry-wide innovation … survey carried out in Nigeria in 2007. Although innovation is important for superior firm performance, our result found that …

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What Drives Innovation?: Inferences from an Industry-Wide Survey in Nigeria

Egbetokun, A; Siyanbola, W; Sanni, M; Olamade, O; Adeniyi, A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This chapter seeks to make some contributions to the literature on firm-level innovation in Africa by attempting to …-wide study. We focused on the product and process innovation activities of firms between 2003 and 2006 and found differences in … the factors that drive them at the firm level. Our results further show that interactions matter more than most innovation …

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