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Tracing Mobile Inventors – The Causality between Inventor Mobility and Inventor Productivity

Hoisl, Karin - 2006

This paper analyzes the causality between inventor productivity and inventor mobility. The results show that the level of education has no influence on inventor productivity. Making use of external sources of knowledge, on the contrary, has a significant effect on productivity. Finally, firm...

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Fairness aspects in personnel scheduling

Wolbeck, Lena Antonia - 2019

In industries like health care, public transport or call centers a shift-based system ensures permanent availability of employees for covering needed services. The resource allocation problem - assigning employees to shifts - is known as personnel scheduling in literature and often aims at...

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Career Concerns As Public Good: The Role of Signaling for Open Source Software Development

El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023

Much of today's software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...

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Competitiveness of milk and wine production and processing in Albania

Petrick, Martin; Schreiber, Catrin; Weingarten, Peter - 2004

This study provides an empirical assessment of the competitiveness of Albanian dairy and wine production, based on specifically collected survey data. For both product groups, the analysis is carried out on two levels: farm level production of raw material and processing and manufacturing of the...

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Zur Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der weißrussischen Milchwirtschaft: eine Anwendung des Porterschen Diamanten

Hockmann, Heinrich; Ramanovich, Mikhail - 2006

In diesem Diskussionspapier wird die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der weißrussischen Milchwirtschaft unter Verwendung von Außenhandelsdaten analysiert. Die ex-post Analyse wird durch eine ex-ante Analyse erweitert, um die künftige Stellung der Branche im internationalen Wettbewerb detaillierter zu...

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Kazakhstan's cotton sector reforms since independence

Oshakbayev, Dauren; Taitukova, Regina; Petrick, Martin; … - 2018

With the goal of reducing the dependency on oil revenues, the Government of Kazakhstan has recently increased its budget allocations to prop up the domestic agricultural sector. Yet, many observers agree that it is less the amount of public spending that induces long-term growth than the quality...

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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm : First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings...

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Informal Employment Relationships and LaborMarket Segmentation in Transition Economies:Evidence from Ukraine

Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Research on informal employment in transition countries has been very limited because of alack of appropriate data. A new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the...

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The Capital Gains Tax: A Curse but Also a Blessing for Venture Capital Investment

Bock, Carolin; Watzinger, Martin - 2017

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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Public innovation in Brazil: An overview of its types,results and drivers

Cavalcante, Pedro; Camões, Marizaura - 2017

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 … lack of evidence-based knowledge regarding different dimensions of innovation prevails. One important dimension that must …

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