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Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? : eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor) - 2008

Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003650257

Innovation on demand : can public procurement drive market success of innovations

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008

Public procurement has been at the centre of recent discussions on innovation policy on both European and national levels (e.g., Aho-Report, Barcelona Strategy). It has a large potential to stimulate innovation since it accounts for 16% of combined EU-15 GDP. We embed public procurement for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738701

Global sensing and sensibility : a multi-stage matching assessment of competitive advantage from foreign sources of innovation

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); … - 2006

We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...

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Innovation activities abroad and the effects of liability of foreignness : where it hurts

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2006

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage for multinational corporations. The success of these engagements depends heavily on tapping host country pools of localized expertise. To achieve this foreign subsidiaries have...

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Young, open and international : the impact of search strategies on the internationalization of new ventures

Zimmermann, Jörg; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2009

Young firms with the ability to internationalize early and decisively have received much attention in recent academic discussion. However, relatively little is known about the underlying processes that enable them to skip several stages of the internationalization process. We contribute to this...

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The heterogeneous effects of training incidence and duration on labor market transitions

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; Paul, Marie - 2010

Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil der Aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland und in vielen … Beschäftigungssuche ab, denn in Deutschland können dem Arbeitslosen zu jedem Zeitpunkt Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen zugewiesen werden …. Wir evaluieren ein wichtiges Programm der beruflichen Weiterbildung in Deutschland (Förderung der beruflichen …

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Gains and pains from contract research : a transaction and firm-level perspective

Grimpe, Christoph (contributor); Kaiser, Ulrich (contributor) - 2008

Determining the research and development (R&D) boundaries of the firm as the choice between internal, collaborative and external technology acquisition has since long been a major challenge for firms to secure a continuous stream of innovative products or processes. While research on R&D...

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Nach der Reform ist vor der Reform? : eine arbeitsökonomische Analyse ausgewählter Aspekte der Hartz-Reformen

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor) - 2008 - Rev.

Arbeitsmarktentwicklung und die Arbeitsmarktprobleme in Deutschland. Vor diesem Hintergrund erfolgt eine Analyse und Bewertung der Reform von …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003702796

Which program for whom? : evidence on the comparative effectiveness of public sponsored training programs in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Osikominu, Aderonke; … - 2007

We use a new and exceptionally rich administrative data set for Germany to evaluate the employment effects of a variety of public sponsored training programs in the early 2000s. Building on the work of Sianesi (2003, 2004), we employ propensity score matching methods in a dynamic, multiple...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003502633

Employment and wage effects of social security financing : an empirical analysis of the West German experience and some policy simulations

Steiner, Viktor - 1996

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un-)employment and wage effects of social security financing undertaken by the OECD Jobs Study. Based on a simple macroeconometric model of the labour market, I investigate whether the peculiar OECD results for Germany on the...

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