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The part-time wage gap across the wage distribution
Gallego Granados, Patricia - 2019
Part-time work has vastly expanded in most OECD labor markets during the last decades. At the same time, full- and part-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the female part-time wage...
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The link between R&D, innovation and productivity : are micro firms different?
Baumann, Julian; Kritikos, Alexander - 2016
We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …
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Knowledge, location, and internationalization : empirical evidence for manufacturing SMEs
Lejpras, Anna - 2012
regional innovation systems. -- Export ; innovation ; location ; manufacturing SMEs ; selective relocation abroad … manufacturing SMEs. Two modes of foreign market servicing are explored: exporting activity and relocating of selected business … the outputs of SMEs' innovative activities-i.e., product innovations and patent applications-enhance exporting propensity …
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Funding self-employment : the role of consumer credit
Kneiding, Christoph; Kritikos, Alexander - 2011
This paper investigates whether self-employed households use consumer loans - in particular instalment loans and overdrafts - to finance business activities. Controlling for financial and non-financial household variables we show that self-employed households particularly use personal overdrafts...
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The determinants of debt and (private-) equity financing in young innovative SMEs : evidence from Germany
Schäfer, Dorothea (contributor); Werwatz, Axel (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev
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How stable are monetary models of the Dollar-Euro exchange rate? : a time-varying coefficient approach
Beckmann, Joscha; Belke, Ansgar; Kühl, Michael - 2009
(the DM). We use monthly data from 1975:01 to 2007:12. Applying a novel time-varying coefficient estimation approach, we …
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Signature requirements and citizen initatives : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany
Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2013
Signature requirements are often used as hurdles to prevent overuse of public referenda. We evaluate the causal effect of lowering signature requirements on the number of observed citizen initiatives. Based on municipality-level data for Germany, we make use of legislative changes at specific...
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Self-employment and economic performance : a geographically weighted regression approach for European regions
Pijnenburg, Katharina - 2013
positive effect of self-employment on economic development in the GWR estimation have, on average, a lower self-employment rate …
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Correcting for self-selection based endogeneity in management research : a review and empirical demonstration
Clougherty, Joseph A.; Duso, Tomaso - 2015
Foundational to the discipline of management is the idea that organizational decisions are a function of expected outcomes; hence, the customary empirical approach to employ multivariate techniques that regress performance outcome variables on discrete measures of organizational choices (e.g.,...
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Financing patterns of innovative SMEs and the perception of innovation barriers in Germany
Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2014
-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs … competition conditions. Therefore, future work on innovation policies for SMEs should put greater emphasis on the non …
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