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 for child and family characteristics including variables reflecting …

We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data … base, we draw on significant changes in selfreported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify … effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and six years. At the age of six, we observe that maternal health shocks in …

This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …-owned firms experience higher job losses than domestically owned firms. At the same time, employment- creating effects of product … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …

This study shows for a large sample of R&D-active manufacturing firms that collaborative R&D has a positive effect on … firms' patenting in terms of both quantity and quality. When distinguishing between alliances that aim at joint creation of … patent quantity is driven by knowledge exchange rather than joint R&D. Firms engaged in joint R&D, on the other hand, receive …

the environmental performance of firms. It is thus worth asking how the innovation activities and performance of firms … with regard to energy and resource efficiency look like: Do EREI firms follow distinct innovation strategies? Do EREIs spur … or limit innovation success? And what are the particular features of EREI firms compared to conventional innovators …

firms. Social software can be employed for knowledge management and for external communication enabling access to internal … has the potential to support service innovation. Using data from 505 German Information- and Communication Technology (ICT …) and knowledge-intensive service firms, this is the first paper which empirically analyses the question whether the use of …

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …