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A comparison of firm-level innovation cooperation in five European countries

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Bolli, Thomas - 2009

This paper compares the determinants and the effects of innovation cooperation on innovation performance at firm level … in five European countries: Belgium, Germany, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. In a first step we analyse cooperation …. In a third step we investigate the impact of all four categories of cooperation on innovation performance. -- national …

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Measurement of labor quality growth : caused by unobservable characteristics

Zurlinden, Mathias (contributor); Bolli, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

The standard economy-wide indices of labor quality (or human capital) largely ignore the role of unobservable worker characteristics. In this paper, we develop a methodology for identifying the contributions of both observable and unobservable worker characteristics in the presence of the...

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The impact of apprenticeship training on personality traits : an instrumental variable approach

Bolli, Thomas; Hof, Stefanie - 2014 - This Version: January 2014

This paper analyzes how apprenticeship training, i.e., work-based secondary education, affects personality traits compared to full-time school-based vocational or general education. Employing an instrumental variable approach that exploits the regional differences in the relative weight of...

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The dynamics of labor productivity in Swiss universities

Bolli, Thomas; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011

This paper analyzes the labor productivity of Swiss university departments between 1995 and 2007. Using a parametric input distance function we estimate and decompose the Malmquist productivity indexes in line with Fuentes et al. (2001) and Atkinson et al. (2003). By contrast to those studies,...

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Evaluating the impact of employment protection on firm-provided training in an RDD framework

Bolli, Thomas; Kemper, Johanna - 2017

This paper tests the hypothesis that employment protection legislation (EPL) increases the incentives of firms to train their employees. The identification strategy uses a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits exemptions of small firms from EPL. Using firm-level data from Finland...

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Is technological change really skills-biased? : firm-level evidence of the complementarities between ICT and workers' education

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2019

This paper extends and refines the concept of ICT-driven skills-biased technological change by disentangling the effects of information technologies (IT) and communication technologies (CT). Guided by the theory that IT and CT differently affect firms' production processes, we investigate the...

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Complementarities among types of education in affecting firms' productivity

Bolli, Thomas; Pusterla, Filippo - 2018

This paper uses Swiss firm-level panel data to estimate how complementarities among workers with different types of education affect firms' productivity. We subdivide workers by education into four groups: no post-secondary education, upper secondary vocational education and training (VET),...

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Competitiveness and ecological impacts of green energy technologies : firm-level evidence for the DACH region

Arvanitis, Spyridon; Peneder, Michael; Rammer, Christian; … - 2016

For a large sample of enterprises in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the "DACH"region) we study the impact of various policy instruments, such as energy related taxes, subsidies, regulations and standards or negotiated agreements on the firm's ecological and economic performance. To identify...

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The (anti-)competitive effect of intellectual property rights

Peneder, Michael; Thompson, Mark; Wörter, Martin - 2019

We test whether intellectual property rights (IPRs) foster or hinder innovation by estimating IV structural equations …

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R&D decisions and productivity growth : evidence from Switzerland and the Netherlands

Dobbelaere, Sabien; König, Michael D.; Spescha, Andrin; … - 2023

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