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Alterung und technologisches Innovationspotential : Eine Linked-Employer-Employee-Analyse

Schneider, Lutz - 2007

Growth in advanced economies is essentially driven by innovation activities. From a demographic point of view the … question rises, whether the trend of an ageing workforce will affect the innovation capacities of these economies. To answer … model, relating a firm's innovation potential to the age composition of its employees. The analysis provides evidence of …

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Does Qualification Drive Innovation? A Microeconometric Analysis Using Linked-employer-employee Data

Brandenburg, Bianca; Günther, Jutta; Schneider, Lutz - 2007

source of innovative activities within companies. Broken down by sectoral innovation patterns, this article examines the role … of formal education and actual occupation for product innovation performance in manufacturing firms within a probit model … to the Pavitt classification. Sectors with a high share of highly skilled employees engage in product innovation above …

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Do foreign players change the nature of the game among local entrepreneurs?

Maliranta, Mika; Nurmi, Satu - 2004

The effect of foreign-owned companies on entrepreneurial survival in the Finnish business sector is analyzed by using a new, exceptionally rich linked data on employees, entrepreneurs and their companies. Our new indicator of foreign presence, based on the observed spatial scopes of the local...

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Spillover Effects and R&D-Cooperations - The Influence of Market Structure

Wölfl, Anita - 2000

&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified …

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The unemployment-growth relationship in transition countries

Gabrisch, Hubert; Buscher, Herbert S. - 2005

Does the disappointingly high unemployment in Central and East European countries reflect non-completed adjustment to institutional shocks from transition to a market economy, or is it the result of high labour market rigidities, or rather a syndrome of too weak aggregate demand and output? In...

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Stochastische Unternehmensmodelle als Kern innovativer Ratingsysteme

Blum, Ulrich; Gleißner, Werner; Leibbrand, Frank - 2005

Auf der Grundlage einer Stichprobe von 105 sächsischen Unternehmen wird deren Zukunftsfähigkeit mit Hilfe einer neuen Ratingtechnologie analysiert. Diese basiert - neben klassischen Analysewerkzeugen - auf einer direkten Einbeziehung von Risikogesichtspunkten und einer stochastischen...

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Firm-Specific Determinants of Productivity Gaps between East and West German Industrial Branches

Stephan, Johannes; Szalai, Karin - 2003

Industrial productivity levels of formerly socialist economies in Central East Europe (including East Germany) are considerably lower than in the more mature Western economies. This research aims at assessing the reasons for lower productivities at the firm level: what are the firm-specific...

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Training and hiring strategies to improve firm performance

Maliranta, Mika; Asplund, Rita - 2007

We study how upgrading the skills of the personnel affects a firm’s performance. Two different strategies are examined: 1) providing formal training and 2) strategic recruitment and separation policy. The use of register-based longitudinal employeremployee data supplemented with a survey on...

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Public funding of R&D and growth: Firm-level evidence from Finland

Piekkola, Hannu - 2005

This study considers employment and productivity growth generated by the public funding of R&D using linked employer-employee data in Finland. Public subsidies, instrumented by available public R&D funding in the industry/region, have a positive effect on productivity growth in small and...

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