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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models

Hussinger, Katrin - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By apllying parametric and...

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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU

Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003

We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain …

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen …

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The Link Between R&D Subsidies, R&D Spending and Technological Performance

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Hussinger, Katrin - 2004

This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D funding on R&D expenditure and patenting behavior of German firms. The main focus is the direct impact of subsidies on R&D and the indirect effect on innovation output measured by patent applications. We distinguish the productivity of purely...

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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms: The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions

Heinze, Anja; Wolf, Elke - 2006

Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …

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Do hours restrictions matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions

Wolf, Elke - 1998

The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...

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Returns to education in West Germany: an empirical assessment

Lauer, Charlotte; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

This paper analyses the developments in the returns to education in West Germany for the period from 1984 to 1997 …

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Cohort effects and the returns to education in West Germany

Boockmann, Bernhard; Steiner, Viktor - 2000

Using a Mincer-type wage function, we estimate cohort effects in the returns to education for West German workers born between 1925 and 1974. The main problem to be tackled in the specification is to separately identify cohort, experience, and possibly also age effects in the returns. For women,...

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Gender wage gap in West Germany: how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...

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Research and development: financial constraints and the role of public funding for small and medium-sized enterprises

Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2002

SME in Western and East-ern Germany are compared because these regions are very different in their supply of public R … external resources. In Eastern Germany, firms are not sensitive to external constraints, possibly due to high public R …&D subsidies. The results suggest that R&D in Eastern Germany is to a large extent driven by public subsidies since the German re …

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