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Contests for Cooperation: A New Approach in German Innovation Policy
Eickelpasch, Alexander; Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
'picking the winner' approach, the contest approach is not suited as a means for achieving a leveling-out of regional welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069027
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New Business Formation and Regional Development: A Survey and Assessment of the Evidence
Fritsch, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper reviews the current state of knowledge about the effect of new business formation on regional development …. Main issues are the development of start-up cohorts, the relative magnitude of direct and indirect effects, and results by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021842
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Does Quality Make a Difference?: Employment Effects of High- and Low-Quality Start-Ups
Fritsch, Michael; Schroeter, Alexandra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of new firms' quality on the magnitude of their employment effects. Our results clearly show that the quality of start-ups, measured by their affiliation with sectors and innovative industries, strongly influences the direct and the overall employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021843
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The Distribution and Heterogeneity of Technical Efficiency within Industries: An Empirical Assessment
Fritsch, Michael; Stephan, Andreas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper analyzes the distribution of technical efficiency within manufacturing industries. Using a representative sample of 35,000 firms in 255 industries of the German cost structure census, technical efficiencies are estimated by applying a deterministic frontier production function with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068688
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Gerechtigkeitsprobleme im Wohlfahrtsstaat: Besteuerung, wohlfahrtsstaatliche Transfers und die Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens
Liebig, Stefan; Schupp, Jürgen - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
need in modern welfare states, which is a subject of controversy in various disciplines. It answers the question of the … extent to which this policy problem of modern welfare states, which is an issue at the macrosocial level, also creates … respect to the fairness of earnings and what effect welfare state interventions have. An important result of the analyses is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068782