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Success breeds success locally: a tale of incubator firms
Inci, Eren - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
what I call a "rationed agglomeration" in which some entrepreneurs gather around an established firm while other … entrepreneurs in the same business stand alone. In a rationed agglomeration, I analyze the e¤ects of relations between established …
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What old stagers could teach us: Examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and increase regional disparities. The age-creativity link is however far from clear at the aggregate level. Contributing to this debate, we estimate the causal effect of the workforce...
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Regional age structure, human capital and innovation: Is demographic ageing increasing regional disparities?
Gregory, Terry; Patuelli, Roberto - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Demographic change is expected to affect labour markets in very different ways on a regional scale. The objective of this paper is to explore the spatio-temporal patterns of recent distributional changes in the workers age structure, innovation output and skill composition for German regions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957710
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EU enlargement and immigration
Kraus, Margit; Schwager, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098165
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What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional job matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
By examining the destination choice patterns of heterogenous labor, this paper tries to explain the skill composition of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098225
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University spinoffs and the 'performance premium'
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Rammer, Christian; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
The creation of spinoff companies is often promoted as a desirable mechanism for transferring knowledge and technologies from research organizations to the private sector for commercialization. In the promotion process, policymakers typically treat these 'university' spinoffs like industry...
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Impacts of parental health on children's development of personality traits and problem behavior: Evidence from parental health shocks
Morefield, Brant; Mühlenweg, Andrea M.; Westermaier, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
In this paper, we examine how parental health affects children's development of personality traits and problem behavior. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on observed parental health shocks as a more exogenous source of health variation to identify these effects and control...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283661
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Age-dependent Skill Formation and Returns to Education
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097739
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Exploring the relationship between scientist human capital and firm performance: The case of biomedical academic entrepreneurs in the SBIR program
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Toole, Andrew A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
Do academic scientists bring valuable human capital to the companies they found or join? If so, what are the particular skills that compose their human capital and how are these skills related to firm performance? This paper examines these questions using a particular group of academic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097877
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Violence in European schools: victimization and consequences
Ammermüller, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
countries but seems not to increase over time. Besides gender, social and migration background and the appearance of students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097887