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What drives venture capital syndication?
Hopp, Christian; Rieder, Finn - In: Applied economics 43 (2011) 22/24, pp. 3089-3102
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Environmental Innovation and Employment Dynamics in Different Technology Fields - An Analysis Based on the German Community Innovation Survey 2009
Horbach, Jens - 2014
The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are only few studies analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis...
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Learning Capitalism the Hard Way - Evidence from German Reunification
Triebs, Thomas - 2017
We develop a model of firm learning in volatile markets with noisy signals and test its predictions using historical German data. Firms' forecasts improve with age. We exploit German Reunification as a natural experiment where firms in the East are treated with ignorance about the distribution...
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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms : The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions
Heinze, Anja - 2008
Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the...
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Spillovers of Innovation Activities and Their Profitability
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2015
Knowledge spillovers to competitors are regarded as an important aspect of the innovation process. While a company possibly benefits from incoming information on successful Ramp;D conducted by other companies, a generally high probability of leakage of knowledge in an industry will negatively...
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Wage Insurance within German Firms : Do Institutions Matter?
Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2009
Using a large linked employer-employee data set, this paper studies the extent to which employers insure workers against transitory and permanent firm-level shocks. Particular emphasis is given to the question of whether the amount of wage insurance depends on the nature of industrial relations....
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Successful Patterns of Scientific Knowledge Sourcing - Mix and Match
Aschhoff, Birgit; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2014
Unique knowledge is a key factor for companies for generating new products, services and processes and thus, to remain competitive. It is increasingly emerging outside of firm boundaries. Universities and public research institutions have been identified as important sources of new knowledge....
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Measuring Organisation Capital at the Firm Level : A Production Function Approach
Rammer, Christian; Roth, Felix; Trunschke, Markus - 2020
Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … organisation capital primarily by monetary investment but rather through establishing new organisational routines and building up … databases, firm-specific human capital, brand equity), but excluding organisation capital. The residuum of the estimation is …
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Why Pay Seniority Wages?
Zwick, Thomas - 2009
This paper characterises establishments that pay higher seniority wages than their competitors. It tests whether seniority wages are paid on the basis of agency, human capital or efficiency wage considerations. A representative linked employeremployee panel and an innovative two-step estimation...
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Insolvency in agriculture : bad managers or the common agricultural policy?
Davies, Alan Simon - In: Applied economics 28 (1996) 2, pp. 185-193
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