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The Link between R&D, Innovation and Productivity : Are Micro Firms Different?

Baumann, Julian - 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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Innovation and Employment in Patenting Firms : Empirical Evidence from Europe

Van Roy, Vincent - 2015

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

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The KfW/Zew Start-Up Panel : Design and Research Potential

Fryges, Helmut - 2009

So far, there has been no data set which observes firm formations in Germany not only on a cross-sectional basis using one-time surveys, but continuously over a number of years. Therefore, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), KfW Bankengruppe and Creditreform set up a panel study of...

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Foreign Competition and Executive Compensation in the Manufacturing Industry : A Comparison between Germany and the U.S

Dyballa, Katharina - 2018

In this study we use import penetration as a proxy for foreign competition in order to empirically analyze (1) the impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3) whether the impact of import penetration is driven by...

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Funding Self-Employment : The Role of Consumer Credit

Kneiding, Christoph - 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...

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Dismissal Protection and Worker Flows in Small Establishments

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bonin, Holger; Bender, Stefan - 2021

Based on a large employer-employee matched data set, the paper investigates the effects of variable enforcement of German dismissal protection legislation on the employment dynamics in small establishments. Specifically, using a difference-in-differences approach, we study the effect of changes...

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Threshold Values in German Labor Law and Job Dynamics in Small Firms : The Case of the Disability Law

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Kölling, Arnd - 2021

According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled employees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...

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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education : Financing Tuition Fees

Chapman, Bruce - 2011

It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition...

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The Unequal Incidence of Non-Standard Employment Across Occupational Groups : An Empirical Analysis of Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Germany and Europe

Marx, Paul - 2011

The paper addresses an often neglected question in labour market research: to which extent do outcomes aggregated on the national level disguise occupational diversity in employment conditions? In particular, how and why do occupational groups differ with regard to the incidence of non-standard...

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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010

Tani, Massimiliano - 2013

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...

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