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What Determines the Inclusion in a Sustainability Stock Index? A Panel Data Analysis for European Companies

Ziegler, Andreas; Schröder, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

This paper examines the determinants of the inclusion of European companies in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones STOXX Sustainability Index. In doing so, the paper contributes to the micro-econometric literature analyzing the determinants and economic effects of...

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Students' e-skills, organizational change and diversity of learning processs: Evidence from French universities in 2010

Ben Youssef, Adel; Dahmani, Mounir; Omrani, Nessrine - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

Driven by ICT, universities are changing in depth the nature and forms of learning processes, which are intended to prepare students to a better entry into the labour market. In this paper, we focus on the evolution of students' use of ICT in such an institution characterized by organizational...

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The labour market in CGE models

Boeters, Stefan; Savard, Luc - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011

This chapter reviews options of labour market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labour supply side, two principal modelling options are distinguished and discussed: aggregated, representative households and microsimulation based on individual household data. On the labour demand side, we...

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Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model: the value of disaggregation

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

We present a combined, consistent microsimulation-AGE model that uses the labour market model PACE-L, data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and a discrete choice labour supply estimation. The model is used to analyse a reform that cuts the social assistance minimum income and lowers the...

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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...

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Alternative Approaches to Discrete Working Time Choice in an AGE Framework

Arntz, Melanie; Boeters, Stefan; Gürtzgen, Nicole - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

We compare two options of integrating discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium model. The first, known from the literature, produces household heterogeneity through a working time preference parameter. We contrast this with a model that directly...

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Discrete Working Time Choice in an Applied General Equilibrium Model

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Feil, Michael; Boeters, Stefan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

We present a model that integrates the discrete working time choice of heterogenous households into a general equilibrium setting where wages are determined by sectoral bargaining between firms and trade unions. The model is calibrated to German micro and macro data. We then use it to analyse...

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...

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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability

Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …

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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

Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...

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