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In times of trouble : innovative drivers of external competitiveness for small businesses during the Great Recession
Brancati, Emanuele; Brancati, Raffaele; Guarascio, Dario; … - 2020
disproportionate effects of innovation for smaller and less productive companies. This points at dynamic strategies as a potential tool …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265251
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Innovation strategies and productivity growth in developing countries : evidence from Pakistan
Wadho, Waqar; Chaudhry, Azam - 2020
We examine the determinants of product, process, and organizational innovation, and their impact on firm labor … productivity using data from a unique innovation survey of firms in Pakistan. We find significant heterogeneity in the impact of … different innovations on labor productivity: Organizational innovation has the largest effect followed by process innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158796
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003973363
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Are education and entrepreneurial income endogenous and do family background variables make sense as instruments? : a Bayesian analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: February 2010
Education is a well-known driver of (entrepreneurial) income. The measurement of its influence, however, suffers from endogeneity suspicion. For instance, ability and occupational choice are mentioned as driving both the level of (entrepreneurial) income and of education. Using instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380037
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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; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: 15.2.2012
manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … ; gender ; productivity ; profitability ; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492405
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Competing in the higher education market : empirical evidence for economies of scale and scope in German higher education institutions
Olivares, Maria; Wetzel, Heike - 2011
Since the late 1990s, the European higher education system has had to face deep structural changes. With the public authorities seeking to create an environment of quasi-markets in the higher education sector, the increased competition induced by recent reforms has pushed all publicly financed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419390
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A field experiment in motivating employee ideas
Neckermann, Susanne; Gibbs, Michael; Siemroth, Christoph - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338674
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2022
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, with particular attention to the role of home environments. Using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic, we find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796887
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Mental health consequences of working from home during the pandemic
Kim, Jun Hyung; Koh, Yu Kyung; Park, Jinseong - 2021
This paper examines the effects of working from home on mental health, using unique real time survey data from South Korea collected during the COVID-19 pandemic. We find that working from home negatively affects the mental health of workers in the first half of 2020. Furthermore, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650393
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Labour market effects of international fragmentation of production : evidence from a survey and case studies in the Dutch industries
Berghuis, Ebel; Butter, Frank A. G. den - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191259