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Wage Penalties for Career Interruptions: An Empirical Analysis for West Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper examines the wage effects of different types of career interruptions. We consider the timing and duration of non-employment spells by exploiting an administrative data set of German social security accounts (IAB employment sample) supplemented with information on the employees? entire...

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How much does a year off cost? Estimating the wage effects of employment breaks and part-time periods

Beblo, Miriam; Wolf, Elke - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the accumulation of human capital as well as a depreciation of the human capital stock built up in the past. In this paper, we estimate the return to effective experience, taking into...

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...

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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?

Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

characteristic for their competitive environment. This is particularly the case for knowledge-intensive service providers, product …

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive …Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been …

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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data

Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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The impact of brand use on innovation performance: Empirical results for Germany

Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The market launch of product innovations is the most visible output of a firm's investment in innovation activities. To … achieve this objective most efficiently, firms strengthen their technological capabilities, acquire external knowledge in a … number of different ways, and optimize their innovation process. The success of a firm's innovation strategy has two …

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Which firms use trademarks - and why? Representative firm-level evidence from Germany

Crass, Dirk - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Trademarking firms are more productive, generate higher profits, and have a better survival rate. Trademarking firms are in one word more successful, which might motivate non-trademarking firms to adopt a trademark strategy. But this seems not to be the case. The proportion of trademarking firms...

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