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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm's Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2021
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers' knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316553
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The Impact of Continuous Training on a Firm’s Innovations
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
implement them. Both of these knowledge-based elements of innovation can be attained through moderate labor force turnover in …Keeping up with rapid technological change necessitates constant innovation. Successful innovation depends on both … incumbent workers’ knowledge, based on experience, and knowledge about the latest technologies, along with the skills needed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405807
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital - Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067943
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157845
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Lifting the Iron Curtain : School-Age Education and Entrepreneurial Intentions
Falck, Oliver - 2015
We exploit Germany's reunification to identify how school-age education affects entrepreneurial intentions. We look at university students in reunified Germany who were born before the Iron Curtain fell. During school age, all students in the West German control group received formal and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012567
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Identity and Entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - 2021
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316368
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Bohemians, Human Capital, and Regional Economic Growth
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - CESifo - 2009
An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013060
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Identity and Entrepreneurship
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lüdemann, Elke - CESifo - 2009
We incorporate the concept of social identity into a stylized model of occupational choice and analyze whether an individual’s identity affects his or her decision to become an entrepreneur. We argue that an entrepreneurial identity results from an individual’s socialization. This could be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979425
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Surfing Alone? The Internet and Social Capital: Evidence from an Unforeseeable Technological Mistake
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2011
Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individual-level data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects several dimensions of social capital. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024847
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How ordinary consumers make complex economic decisions : financial literacy and retirement readiness
Lusardi, Annamaria; Mitchell, Olivia S. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887139