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Human capital diversity and product innovation : a micro-level analysis
Söllner, René - 2010
; Innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962534
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Should Continued Family Firms Face Lower Taxes than Other Estates?
Grossmann, Volker - 2009
Inheritance taxes may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766594
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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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Analyzing Educational Achievement Differences between Second-Generation Immigrants : Comparing Germany and German-Speaking Switzerland
Kunz, Johannes - 2014
In this study, I provide evidence that the educational achievement of second-generation immigrants in German-speaking Switzerland is greater than in Germany. The impact of the first-generation immigrants' destination decision on their offspring's educational achievement seems to be much more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044666
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Prior knowledge and entrepreneurial innovative success
Cantner, Uwe (contributor); Göthner, Maximilian (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003553613
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Local Innovation Systems and Benchmarking
Cantner, Uwe (contributor) - 2008
knowledge production function relating innovation inputs and innovation outputs. In analyses on the regional level and …This paper reviews approaches used for evaluating the performance of local or regional innovation systems. This … especially when acknowledging regional innovation systems those approaches have to take into account cooperative invention and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003724181
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Fields of knowledge, types of higher education institutions, and innovative start-ups : an empirical investigation
Aamoucke, Ronney; Fritsch, Michael - 2014
We investigate the role played by different fields of academic knowledge and various types of higher education … different indicators for these types of knowledge, the strongest effects are found for the number of professors, followed by the … the regional knowledge stock than the number of students that is most important for the emergence of innovative stat-ups. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010342539
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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions
Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770448
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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010
It has become common within the literature of skill-biased technological change to look at technologies, as well as their impact on the demand for labor as homogeneous across industries. This paper challenges this view. Using a linked employer-employee panel of Germany differentiated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669976
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Worker personality : another skill bias beyond education in the digital age
Bode, Eckhardt; Brunow, Stephan; Ott, Ingrid; Sorgner, Alina - 2016
We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills acquired through education but also with respect to noncognitive skills (personality). We measure the direction of technological change by estimated future...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011562669