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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in … innovation within a multivariate regression framework. However, when instrumenting training by the existence of a union …

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Demographic change will be one of the major challenges for economic policy in the developed world in the next decades. In this article, we analyze the relationship between age structure and the number of startups. We argue that an individual's decision to start a business is determined by his or...

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Subsidizing national champions: an evolutionary perspective

Aubert, Cécile; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...

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The extension of clusters: difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

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Auswirkungen der Flüchtlingsmigration auf die langfristige Tragfähigkeit der öffentlichen Finanzen

Aretz, Bodo; Christofzik, Désirée I.; Scheuering, Uwe; … - 2016

Die bestehenden Tragfähigkeitsrisiken in Deutschland resultieren aus der demografischen Alterung und sind weiterhin …

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Flexibilisierung und Leiharbeit in der Pflege

Bräutigam, Christoph; Dahlbeck, Elke; Enste, Peter; … - 2010

Zeitarbeit in der Pflege unterscheidet sich in einigen Punkten von Zeitarbeit in anderen Branchen: Sie wird weitgehend nicht zur Kompensation von Auftragsspitzen eingesetzt, sondern eher als Mittel zur Aufrechterhaltung der Versorgung bei zu geringer Personalausstattung. Es dominiert die...

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Arbeitsreport Krankenhaus: Eine Online-Befragung von Beschäftigten deutscher Krankenhäuser

Bräutigam, Christoph; Evans, Michaela; Hilbert, Josef; … - 2014

Ein zukunftsfähiges Gesundheitswesen erfordert es, das Zusammenspiel von Patienteninteressen, Mitarbeiterinteressen und Wirtschaftlichkeit stärker in den Blick zu nehmen. Und es bedeutet, die Konsequenzen der Reorganisationsprozesse der vergangenen Jahre zu thematisieren. Wichtige Ergebnisse...

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It's all in Marshall: the impact of external economies on regional dynamics

Audretsch, David B.; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

Marshall's student Pigou noted: It's all in Marshall. From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept of external...

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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree: location of start-ups relative to incumbents

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...

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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010

We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...

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