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This microeconometric study analyzes the effects of individual leisure sports participation on long-term labour market variables, on socio-demographic as well as on health and subjective well-being indicators for West Germany based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study...
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This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
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We develop a simple labour turnover model of general training. Upon completion of theirtraining, apprentices are equipped with general skills and they accumulate firm-specificskills by continuing working for their training firm. Job turnover is associated with a loss ofaccumulated firm-specific...
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Our study analyzes the effect of the capital gains tax on the individual investment decisions of venture capitalists. By doing so, we are able to study the decisions for a sample of 76,852 funding rounds in 32 countries from 2000 to 2012. Our results support the predictions of the theoretical...
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lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding different dimensions of innovation prevails. One important dimension that must … transactional costs. In that sense, many have argued that innovation can contribute to improve the public service quality and … consensus about the increase of management innovation practices over the last two decades. However, as in other countries, the …
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with a currently inferior product opts for a large but risky innovation, whereas a currently superior product chooses a … smaller but certain innovation. …
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We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the …
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How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by … ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …
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In a patent thicket licensing provides a mechanism to either avoid or resolve hold up. We study the choice between ex ante licensing to avoid hold up and ex post licensing to resolve it. Firms’ choice of licensing contract is studied in the context of a patent portfolio race. We show that high...
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