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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The empirical analysis, based on the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse and Peters (2008) and CIS data for 16 countries, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due...
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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694125
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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective
Hogrefe, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …
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Offshoring and labor income risk
Hogrefe, Jan; Yao, Yao - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyzes the impact increased offshoring has on labor income risk. It is therefore distinct from a large … offshoring trends at the sector level. Importantly, we distinguish between transitory and permanent shocks to individual income …-insurable. It thus has a particular relevance for individual welfare. Our findings suggest that offshoring tends to lower permanent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957736
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Against the one-way-street: Analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science
Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147347
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Industry funding of university research and scientific productivity
Hottenrott, Hanna; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
University research provides valuable inputs to industrial innovation. It is therefore not surprising that private sector firms increasingly seek direct access through funding public R&D. This development, however, spurred concerns about possible negative long-run effects on scientific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008804642
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The impact of informational costs in quantity regulation of pollutants. The case of the European Emissions Trading Scheme
Heindl, Peter - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
There is extreme heterogeneity of firms regulated under the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) in terms of emissions evels and employed technology. We present a model that shows that behavior of firms under quantity regulation can differ strongly, dependent on the characteristics of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009211177
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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the taskbased approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098039
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Trade and technology: New evidence on the productivity sorting of firms
Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
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