There is a growing concern about collective wage agreement and employment dynamics in Germany. In this paper, evidence … is provided on the way collective wage agreements affect the adjustment of working hours, employment and other production … agreements significantly influence firms' employment policies. Enrolments and the employment of free-lance collaborators are …

knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out … measures constructed from innovation survey data appear to work reasonably well while measures of the Euclidean technological …

collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …&D cooperation has a weakly significant positive effect on innovation expenditures. The empirical results broadly support the …

in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East …