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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
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The social long-term care insurance in Germany: origin, situation, threats, and perspectives
Heinicke, Katrin; Thomsen, Stephan L. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
challenges for its sustainability. Therefore, recently suggested reform options are discussed at the end of the paper showing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518269
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Measuring the immeasurable: a survey of substainability indices
Böhringer, Christoph; Jochem, Patrick - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the … be performed. This paper reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097645
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Determinants of Environmental Innovations in Germany: Do Organizational Measures Matter? A Discrete Choice Analysis at the Firm Level
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
realization of an environmental product and a process innovation, indeed only compared with the realization of no environmental … innovation. …
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Der Einfluss ökologischer und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit auf den Shareholder Value europäischer Aktiengesellschaften
Schröder, Michael; Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002
Dieses Papier betrachtet den Effekt der Umwelt- und Sozialperformance europäischer Unternehmen auf deren Shareholder Value. Der Shareholder Value wird dabei mit der durchschnittlichen monatlichen Aktienrendite zwischen 1996 und 2001 operationalisiert. Die Studie basiert auf zweistufigen...
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The effects of corporate and country sustainability characteristics on the cost of debt: An international investigation
Hoepner, Andreas; Oikonomou, Ioannis; Scholtens, Bert; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
We investigate the relationship between corporate and country sustainability on the cost of bank loans. We look into … operating in all major industries. Our principal findings reveal that country sustainability related to both social and … of one unit in country sustainability scores is associated with an average decrease in the costs of debt by 64 basis …
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To raise or not to raise? Impact assessment of Russia's incremental gas price reform
Heyndrickx, Christophe; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The growing momentum for gas price liberalization in Russia is increasingly constrained by fears of potentially strong adverse impact that market-based price setting principle will have on the economy. Based on a novel multi-regional, multi-sector and multi-household computable general...
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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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