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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 - 2012
development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096452
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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?
Baumann, Julian - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999002
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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits : Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian - 2012
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109440
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046258
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344485
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Who Do Unions Target? Unionization Over the Life-Cycle of U.S. Businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047857
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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016346
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Wie gut ist "gute Corporate Governance"? : ein aktueller Praxistest
Theisen, Manuel René; Raßhofer, Martin - In: Der Betrieb 60 (2007) 24, pp. 1317-1321
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592346
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Start-Up Success of Freelancers : New Microeconometric Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel
Merz, Joachim - 2006
If certain start-up characteristics will indicate a business success, knowing such characteristics could generate more successful start-ups and more efficient start-up counseling. Our study will contribute to this by quantifying individual success determinants of freelance start-ups. The data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780455
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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach
Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021
This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317164