booster shot on firms' labour productivity. This effect is significantly larger than the effect of a single grant. A more …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … firms designated as innovative SMEs by the government are not performing differently than general firms. Only the CEO … considered to actively promote SMEs innovativeness. …

subsidized apprentice. The subsidy offsets forgone labor earnings. Four years after the start of the experiment, treated youths …

, but productivity growth cannot fully explain the immediate effect on earnings. Instead, the data and a grantee survey are …

Industry size standards that determine eligibility for small business subsidies have vastly increased over the past … firms, subsidy allocation, and industry outcomes using Census Bureau microdata. Following size standard increases, revenues … declines. These findings highlight the broad economic effects of changing eligibility for small business subsidies. …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

Offering unemployed individuals a subsidy to become self-employed is a widespread active labor market policy strategy … market prospects compared to other unemployed individuals. However, the examination of start-up subsidies from a business … expected deadweight losses related to start-up subsidies occur on a (much) lower scale than usually assumed. …

in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1 …

From an active labor market policy perspective, start-up subsidies for unemployed individuals are very effective in … to compare participants of a German start-up subsidy program for unemployed individuals to a group of regular founders … who started from non-unemployment and did not receive the subsidy. The data allows us to analyze their business …