Germany, our regression results show that entrepreneurs in creative industries tend to be younger and better educated than …

are lacking in Germany, we know from empirical studies that entry rates differ between regions, and that the propensity to …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in … determinants of innovation, such as R&D investments, stock of patents and openness to trade. To address possible endogeneity of … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany - for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime - to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

generalists and specialists to possess skill variety. Third, we test our model empirically using data from Germany and the … that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …

-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …