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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data

Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017

ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...

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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems

Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014

Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …

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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?

Wolf, Elke - 2000

Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible labor market there will exist hours restrictions for...

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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands

Wolf, Elke - 2001

In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...

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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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Recent developments in evolutionary economics

Witt, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

: innovations, knowledge transfer, industrial dynamics, structural change, international competitiveness, evolutionary game theory …-48 -- Joel Mokyr (1998), 'Induced Technical Innovation and Medical History: An Evolutionary Approach', Journal of Evolutionary … Verspagen (2002), 'Technology-Gaps, Innovation-Diffusion and Transformation: An Evolutionary Interpretation', Research Policy …

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Recent developments in evolutionary economics

Witt, Ulrich (ed.) - 2008

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Zur Rolle der privaten und öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen in europäischen Innovationssystemen

Preißl, Brigitte - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 68 (2001) 30, pp. 459-468

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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation

Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …

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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system

Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...

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