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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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International spillovers and feedback : modelling in a disequilibrium framework

Winker, Peter - 2000

first few quarters. This combination resulted in a major increase of imports from the main trading partners of West Germany … in other countries leading to a feedback on Germany. The paper provides a short overview over the basic model. The … modelling approach and estimation results for the trade submodels are presented in some detail and simmulation results for the …

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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany

Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998

on industrial innovations in Germany. We discuss the characteristics of companies that benefit from the findings of … of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany …

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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches

Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999

In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...

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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...

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R&D cooperation and R&D intensity : theory and micro-econometric evidence for german manufacturing industries

Kaiser, Ulrich; Licht, Georg - 1998

This paper develops a three stage oligopoly game for R&D cooperation, R&D expenditure and product market competition. In the first stage, firms decide whether or not to conduct R&D in cooperation with other firms. In the second stage the level of R&D investment is determined. Finally, firms...

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Management practices, workforce selection and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

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Gender wage gap in West Germany: how far do gender differences in human capital matter?

Lauer, Charlotte - 2000

This paper analyses the extent to which gender differences in human capital contribute to explaining the observable wage differential in favour of men and its reduction since the mid-eighties among West German full-time employees in the private sector. Based on a simple analytical framework, the...

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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000

Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...

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Has earnings inequality in Germany changed in the 1980's?

Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1996

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