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Works Councils, Training Activities and Innovation: A Study of German Firms
Cantner, Uwe; Gerstlberger, Wolfgang; Roy, Ipsita - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
establishment data on various aspects of training practices and innovation activities in Germany, the paper examines the degree … works councils as an instrument for a firm's total training activities that correlate with innovation, and weak support when … we consider only generalized training and innovation. Finally, no significant relation is found between training …
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Effects of entrepreneurship education at universities
Slavtchev, Viktor; Laspita, Stavroula; Patzelt, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study analyzes the impact of entrepreneurship education at universities on the intentions of students to become entrepreneurs or self-employed in the short-term (immediately after graduation) and in the long-term (five years after graduation). A difference-in-differences approach is applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010551527
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship competencies and intentions: An evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program
Oosterbeek, Hessel; Praag, Mirjam van; IJsselstein, Auke - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032002
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Innovation and Social Capital: A Cross-country Investigation
Doh, Soogwan; Acs, Zoltan J. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509227
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Human Capital Diversity and Product Innovation: A Micro-Level Analysis
Söllner, Rene - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509664
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The Impact of Truancy on Educational Attainment: A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between educational attainment and truancy. Using data from the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales, we estimate the causal impact that truancy has on educational attainment at age 16. Problematic is that both truancy and attainment are measured as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642299
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AIDS and Dualism: Ethiopia's Burden under Rational Expectations
Bell, Clive; Koukoumelis, Anastasios - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
An AIDS epidemic threatens Ethiopia with a long wave of premature adult mortality, and thus with an enduring setback to capital formation and economic growth. The authors develop a two-sector model with three overlapping generations and intersectorally mobile labor, in which young adults...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012078
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A Bivariate Ordered Probit Estimator with Mixed Effects
Buscha, Franz; Conte, Anna - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we discuss the derivation and application of a bivariate ordered probit model with mixed effects. Our approach allows one to estimate the distribution of the effect (gamma) of an endogenous ordered variable on an ordered explanatory variable. By allowing gamma to vary over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487841
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The Skill Balancing Act: Determinants of and Returns to Balanced Skills
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Noseleit, Florian - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Entrepreneurs are found to have balanced skill sets and most have worked in small firms before starting their own business. In light of this, we compare the skill sets of employees working in businesses of different size to the skill sets of entrepreneurs using a rich data set on the applied...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131067
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The Causal Effect of Cognitive Abilities on Economic Behavior: Evidence from a Forecasting Task with Varying Cognitive Load
Rydval, Ondrej - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
We identify the causal effect of cognitive abilities on economic behavior in an experimental setting. Using a forecasting task with varying cognitive load, we identify the causal effect of working memory on subjects' forecasting performance, while also accounting for the effect of other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391901