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development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly …
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …
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centralized systems (Italy and Germany) lagging behind the more autonomous ones (Canada, Sweden, the UK, the US). For Italy, we …
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We study how managerial practices of school principals affect student performance and aspirations. We link administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the World Management Survey methodology. The frequent...
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What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. We use unique data on the search behavior of job...
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emphasis on technology which can be found in the recent literature, our estimation results indicate that numerical superiority …
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This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …
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