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Radical or incremental: Where does R&D policy hit?

Beck, Mathias; Lopes-Bento, Cindy; Schenker-Wicki, Andrea - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental...

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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...

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Do R&D subsidies matter? Evidence for the German service sector

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

In recent times the service sector is often called the driving force of today?s economies. This paper analyses the innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects engage more in innovative activities than others....

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The performance of German firms in the business-related service sectors : a dynamic analysis

van Phu, Nguyen; Kaiser, Ulrich; Laisney, François - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey provides the panel data base of our study. Firm performance is measured by the survey respondents? ordinal indication of their changes in total sales. We use a firstorder Markov chain...

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Innovation and Information Technology in Services

Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...

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Do Innovation Subsidies Crowd Out Private Investment? Evidence from the German Service Sector

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

This paper analyses the impact of public innovation subsidies on private innovation expenditure. In the empirical economic literature there is still no common support for the hypothesis of either a complementary or a substitutive relationship between public funding and private investment. We...

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly...

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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...

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The Impact of New Technologies on the Demand for Heterogenous Labour: Empirical Evidence from the German Business-Related Services Sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998

The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts …We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

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