Graduates from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are usually found to have higher wages and a … characteristics, such as ability. Using data on German male graduates we show that unobserved heterogeneity indeed matters for … differences in the risk of overqualification and wages when STEM graduates are compared to the Business & Law group, while it …

tertiary education or cognitive skills. This paper is based on a large and representative graduate survey of graduates in the …

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 …

This study examines how industry-specific managerial experience affects firms' innovation performance in the context of …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

This study presents a novel empirical approach to identify financing constraints for innovation based on the concept of …. If they selected additional innovation projects, they must have had some unexploited investment opportunities that were … not profitable using more costly external finance. We attribute constraints for innovation not only to lacking financing …