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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers

Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019

Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

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Precocious inventors : early patenting success and lifetime inventive performance

Michlbauer, Theresa; Zwick, Thomas - 2021

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their remaining career. We use European patent data for a period of 32 years for 1240 German inventors. The patent data are linked with survey data that provide information on an extensive...

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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations

Zwick, Thomas - 2000

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

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Determinants of work-related training : an investigation of observed and unobserved firm-, job- and worker-heterogeneity

Steffes, Susanne; Warnke, Arne Jonas - 2019

One of the most important policy goals in industrialized countries is to increase the skill level of the labor force by life-long-learning strategies. In this paper our aim is to explain to what extent the variation in training investments is determined either by (observed and unobserved)...

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Socio-economic status and inequalities in children's IQ and economic preferences

Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian; Pinger, Pia; … - 2019

This paper explores inequalities in IQ and economic preferences between children from high and low socio-economic status (SES) families. We document that children from high SES families are more intelligent, patient and altruistic, as well as less risk-seeking. To understand the underlying...

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Intergenerational mobility and self-selection of asylum seekers in Germany

Kolb, Michael; Neidhöfer, Guido; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2019 - This version, 13 June 2019

We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...

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Working life and human capital investment : causal evidence from pension reform

Gohl, Niklas; Haan, Peter; Kurz, Elisabeth; Weinhardt, Felix - 2019

In this paper we present a life-cycle model with human capital investment during working life through training and provide a novel empirical test of human capital theory. Using a sizable pension reform which shifts the retirement age between two adjacent cohorts by three years, we document...

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Transitions from offline to online labor markets : the relationship between freelancers' prior offline and online work experience

Seifried, Mareike - 2021

An emerging stream of research from various disciplines studies online labor market (OLM) platforms as an alternative way of accomplishing work compared to traditional (offline) labor markets. Although prior work has increased our understanding of how OLM platforms function, we so far know very...

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Career paths in online labor markets : same, same but different?

Seifried, Mareike; Jurowetzki, Roman; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2020

The emergence of online labor markets calls the validity of traditional career models into question. Given the volatility and digital nature of this environment, short-term employment relationships and heterogeneity of workers, employers and tasks in these markets, it is unclear how careers...

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Regional favoritism and human capital accumulation in Africa

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hufschmidt, Patrick - 2021

We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...

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