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Assimilation, labour market experience, and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany

Licht, Georg; Steiner, Viktor - 1993

Germany which allows us to control for unobserved population heterogeneity and potential selectivity bias arising from an …-worker system we use information on an immigrant's expected duration of stay in Germany to distinguish between temporary and … of stay. We find that years of schooling in Germany have a strong positive effect on earnings, that earnings …

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Assimilation, labour market experience, and earnings profiles of temporary and permanent immigrant workers in Germany

Licht, Georg - 1993

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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...

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Patents and R&D : an econometric investigation using applications for German, European and US patents by German companies

Licht, Georg; Zoz, Konrad - 1996

Based on the data of the first wave of the Mannheim Innovation panel, this paper explores the link between R&D expenditures and patents. Our data allow a detailed analysis of the firm size distribution of R&D and patent applications at different patent offices. It is shown that the share of R&D...

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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1997

the large own-price elasticity of unskilled labour and by biased technological change. During the period of 1977.1994, the …

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Innovation and information technology in services

Licht, Georg - 1997

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...

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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand - 1997

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Curvature conditions and substitution pattern among capital, energy, materials and heterogeneous labour

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand - 1999

This study deals with the determinants of factor demand in 27 industries of the manufacturing sector during the period 1978 to 1990. Using a quadratic cost function, six production factors are distinguished : capital, energy, three types of labour and intermediate materials. A parametric test of...

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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999

This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...

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The Impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999

This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...

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