outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the range of 10 to 15 percent. We find no return to compulsory schooling in Germany in terms of higher wages. We … investigate whether this is due to labor market institutions or the existence of the apprenticeship training system in Germany … most relevant for the labor market are learned earlier in Germany than in other countries …

training received by workers in Germany between 1986 and 1989. Further training is primarily a white collar phenomenon, is …

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

explanations of firm sponsored training. Using microdata from Germany, we show that the predictions of the specific human capital …

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …