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Fading shooting stars : the relative age effect, misallocation of talent, and returns to training in German elite youth soccer

Tohoff, Lukas; Mechtel, Mario - 2022

This paper analyses the Relative Age Effect (RAE) in German elite youth soccer academies. We examine the efficiency of talent selection and the returns to training. Our results indicate a strong effect of players' birth dates on their probability of getting selected - and, thus, a waste of...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: November 29, 2012

more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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International firm activities and innovation : evidence from knowledge production functions for German firms

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2006

sources, too. The importance of these knowledge sources varies with the type of innovation. These results, which are broadly …Export, Auslandsinvestition, Wissensproduktion, Deutschland - Exports, foreign direct investment, knowledge production …Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms …

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Fields of training, plant characteristics and the gender wage gap in entry wages among skilled workers : evidence from German administrative data

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the gender wage gap among skilled German workers after the end of vocational training using data from social security record. Using information on worker and plant characteristics for both the training plant and the current employer, results from standard decomposition...

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The role of psychological traits for the gender gap in full-time employment and wages : evidence from Germany

Braakmann, Nils (contributor) - 2009

This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the "big fiveʺ, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel,...

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Are there social returns to both firm-level and regional human capital? : evidence from German social security data

Braakmann, Nils - 2009

This paper provides first evidence on the social returns to education from both firm-level and regional human capital. Using panel data from German social security, both at an individual and aggregated at the plant and regional level, I estimate earnings functions incorporating measures of...

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The link between career risk aversion and unemployment duration : evidence of non-linear and time-depending pattern

Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Ullrich, Britta - 2010

In this study, we investigate the nexus between career risk aversion and unemployment duration based on German survey data (GSOEP). Using a direct measurement of career risk aversion, we do not find a statistically significant linear effect from risk aversion on unemployment duration. However,...

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