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Does education reduce wage inequality? : quantile regressions evidence from fifteen European countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2000

We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...

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Moretti, Luca; Mayerl, Martin; Mühlemann, Samuel; … - 2017

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using two original micro data sets. While both countries share a number of similarities, including an extensive vocational education and training (VET) system, and a common border,...

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Technological capabilities and patterns of cooperation of UK firms : a regional investigation

Iammarino, Simona; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco; … - 2009

innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship … between cooperative linkages for innovation and the development of technological capabilities by business units. Firstly, the …

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Nascent and infant entrepreneurs in Germany : evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

Based on data from a recent representative survey of the adult population in Germany this paper documents that the patterns of variables influencing nascent and infant entrepreneurship are quite similar and broadly in line with our theoretical priors both types of entrepreneurship are fostered...

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Nascent entrepreneurs in German regions : evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Lückgen, Ingo; Oberschachtsiek, Dirk; Sternberg, Rolf G.; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Nascent entrepreneurs are people who are (alone or with others) actively engaged in creating a new venture and who expect to be the owner or part owner of this start-up. Given that newly founded firms are important for the economic development of nations and regions, and that nascent...

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Females' willingness to work and the discouragement effect of a poor local childcare provision

Ham, Maarten van (contributor); Büchel, Felix (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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"Der Noth gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Trieb": nascent necessity and opportunity entrepreneurs in Germany: evidence from the Regional Entrepreneurship Monitor (REM)

Wagner, Joachim (contributor) - 2005

Using a large recent representative sample of the adult German population this paper demonstrates that nascent necessity and nascent opportunity entrepreneurs are different with respect to some of the characteristics and attitudes considered to be important for becoming a nascent entrepreneur,...

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Testing the "residential rootedness"-hypothesis of self-employment for Germany and the UK

Reuschke, Darja; Ham, Maarten van - 2011

Based on the notion that entrepreneurship is a 'local event', the literature argues that self-employed workers and entrepreneurs are 'rooted' in place. This paper tests the 'residential rootedness'-hypothesis of self-employment by examining for Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are...

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Personal and regional determinants of entrepreneurial activities : empirical evidence from the REM Germany

Wagner, Joachim; Sternberg, Rolf G. - 2002

This paper contributes to empirical research in entrepreneurship by focusing on the link between two stylized facts that emerged from a number of studies for Germany and other countries: Entry rates differ between regions, and the propensity to become an entrepreneur is influenced by...

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Survival, growth, and interfirm collaboration of start-up companies in high-technology industries : a case study of Upper Bavaria

Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001

sectors with a greater proportion of cooperating firms have a greater growth rate. The innovation activities however do hardly … entrepreneurs and according to specific sector conditions should not be treated as equivalent to innovation networks for which our …

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