estimation of causal effects shows significant higher average annual employment growth rates of German venture-backed firms. …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

-neutral "employment bonus" which subsidizes small hourly wages and not low wage incomes is considered. The "employment bonus" would induce …In this contribution employment effects of wage subsidies and a minimum wage are analyzed for Germany. Existing studies … for the construction sector and simulations of a statutory minimum wage unanimously point to employment losses of a …

importance of the interactions and linkages among acteurs and institutions involved in innovation and technology development of a … country and calls such a web of interaction a national innovation system. The theoretical and empirical analyses on national … systems of innovation lead to the conclusion that countries differ in the way in which knowledge flows and that innovation …