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This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …
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This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric … during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job …
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prone to increase employment, while firms that want to slash costs by innovation and compete by soft factors de …This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions in-duced by environmental innovations. On the basis of the … between the factors that have an impact on employment increases and employment decreases. The data stem from a telephone …
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investments nevertheless. When outsiders have an effective entry threat, insiders are forced to accept higher employment of … outsiders and share the reduced rents with them. However, full employment is not necessarily reached and in any case investments …
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normal retirement age in Germany did not prolong employment of older men. The reason for this surprising result is that … retirement option for the long-term insured. Bridge options allowed employers to terminate employment considerably earlier than … of the bridge options. Therefore mainly employers with high employment adaption costs induced employees to use a bridge …
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employment. An important at‐risk group comprises employees who have worked in demanding jobs for many years. This group may be …‐discontinuity approach to estimate the labor market reactions. Surprisingly, we find the same relative employment increase of about 25% for …
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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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representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
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unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from … rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …
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