estimation of causal effects shows significant higher average annual employment growth rates of German venture-backed firms. …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding-out effects between public and private means occur. A … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … their innovation activities by about four percentage points. …

firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that … minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital, reduce employment growth and accelerate total …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …