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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
more active in R&D. -- ageing ; firm performance ; gender ; Germany ; innovation ; R&D …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009675512
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Innovation and communication media in virtual teams - an experimental study
Grözinger, Nicola; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Laske, Katharina; … - 2020
In a novel real-effort setting, we experimentally study the effects of different communication media on creative performance in a collaborative tasks. We find that creative performance significantly decreases when group members communicate via chat instead of face-to-face. However, we find no...
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Social exchange in collaborative innovation: maker or breaker
Malmström, Malin M.; Johansson, Jeaneth - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-20
Collaborations in innovation work between competitors have become a common practice in the information and … this study is to explore the role of social exchange in the outcomes of early-stage innovation collaborations. More … exchange theory is used for this purpose. This longitudinal study is based on a 3-year collaboration project for innovation …
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Design thinking teams and team innovation performance
Heldal, Frode - In: Journal of innovation and entrepreneurship : JIE 12 (2023), pp. 1-26
Design thinking (DT) is hailed as a cornerstone of innovation. It is based on teamwork, yet we know little about how … the DT team operates and collaborates. In this study, we investigate 51 Norwegian master's student teams as they work on … an innovation project using DT. We seek especially to understand how they communicate and collaborate while working with …
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Labor force activity after 60 : recent trends in the Scandinavian countries with Germany as a benchmark
Larsen, Mona; Pedersen, Peder J. - 2015
In most OECD member countries labor force attachment has increased in recent years in the 60+ group. Focus in the paper is on the development in this area in Denmark, Norway and Sweden since the 1990s. The development in the same period in the German labor market is included as a frame of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347283
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Opening the blackbox : how does labor market policy affect the job seekers' behavior? ; a field experiment
Arni, Patrick - 2015
Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449227
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Wages and ageing : is there evidence for the "inverse-U" profile?
Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007
How individual wages change with time, and how they are expected to change as individuals grow older, is one of crucial determinants of their behaviour on the labour market including their decision to retire. The profile of individual hourly wages has for a long time been assumed to follow an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637282
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Beschäftigung Älterer in Deutschland : der unvollständige Paradigmenwechsel
Eichhorst, Werner (contributor) - 2006
Despite a sequence of labor market reforms in recent years, employment of older workers in Germany is still lower than in many other European countries. The paper explains this by institutional factors that affect labor supply, labor demand and matching, i.e. labor market regulation, human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003283432
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Recruitment and job applications of older jobseekers from the establishments' perspective
Bellmann, Lutz (contributor); Brussig, Martin (contributor) - 2007
In the demographic change, a prolongation of individual employment and thus of beginning a new employment in later stages of the work life is of growing importance. On the base of microeconomic data (establishment panel of the IAB), this paper analyses firms' characteristics correlating with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003578835
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Making work pay for the elderly unemployed : evaluating alternative policy reforms for Germany
Haan, Peter (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2006
We evaluate three policy reforms targeted at older unemployed people: (i) an hourly wage subsidy, (ii) an in-work credit, and (iii) a subsidy of social security contributions on low wages. The work incentive, labour supply and welfare effects of these hypothetical reforms are analysed on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497902