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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 - 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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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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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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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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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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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? : evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012 - This version: November 29, 2012
more active in R&D. -- Ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670433
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Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation : a replication study with firm-level data from six European countries
Wagner, Joachim - 2015 - This version: July 21, 2015
-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298736
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International firm activities and innovation : evidence from knowledge production functions for German firms
Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2006
Export, Auslandsinvestition, Wissensproduktion, Deutschland - Exports, foreign direct investment, knowledge production … function, Germany …Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003316719
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Are new German postal providers successful? : empirical evidence based on unique survey data
El Masri, Toufic M. - 2013 - This version: October 01, 2013
In order to investigate firm survival and the potential for competition in the German postal market, I analyzed key success determinants of market leader competitors. The analysis is based on eight 2011 case studies, in which I conducted in-depth interviews during on-site visits to various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189581