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Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288522
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Employer cooperation, productivity, and wages : new evidence from inter-firm formal network agreements
Devicienti, Francesco; Grinza, Elena; Manello, Alessandro; … - 2022
both firms and workers. The estimation of rent-sharing equations, as well as other tests that exploit unionization data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414729
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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003944725
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Bureaucratic rents and life satisfaction
Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Meier, Stephan (contributor) - 2006
The monopoly position of the public bureaucracy in providing public services allows government employees to acquire rents. Those rents can involve higher wages, monetary and non-monetary fringe benefits (e.g. pensions and staffing), and/or bribes. We propose a direct measure to capture the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278945
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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency : evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors
Kumbhakar, Subal; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, Lesley - 2009
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931968
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What makes a good conference? : analysing the preferences of labor economists
Borghans, Lex; Romans, Margo; Sauermann, Jan - 2010
Conferences are an important element in the work of researchers, requiring substantial investments in fees, travel expenses and the time spent by the participants. The aim of this paper is to identify the preferences of participants with respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003951335
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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
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Household division of labor, partnerships and children : evidence from Europe
Gimenez, Jose Ignacio (contributor);  … - 2007
-country differences in partnership formation rates, and the dramatic decrease in partnership formation rates in Southern Europe in … differential impact on partnership formation rates in Northern and Southern Europe due to the different social norms regarding the … partnership formation rates in Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610015
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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution : a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Callan, Tim (contributor) - 2007
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561638
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Compulsory schooling reforms, education and mortality in twentieth century Europe
Gathmann, Christina; Jürges, Hendrik; Reinhold, Steffen - 2012
mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we … mortality for women. -- compulsory schooling ; education ; mortality ; Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009533288