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Pharmainnovationen : überragende Position der USA und Schwächen der deutschen Forschung
Eckert, Andreas; Maennig, Wolfgang - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 101 (2021) 8, pp. 652-659
Die Innovationskraft von Forschungsleistungen wird oft an Inputs wie Forschungsmitteln oder Outputs wie Patentanmeldungen gemessen. Hier wird ein neuartiger Indikator für pharmazeutische Innovationskraft vorgestellt, der sich auf die weltweiten medizinischen Durchbrüche und die assoziierten...
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Forschung und Innovation : wo steht Deutschland?
Dehio, Jochen; Engel, Dirk; Graskamp, Rainer - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 86 (2006) 8, pp. 517-523
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Co-Determination and Innovation
Kraft, Kornelius - 2009
This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries … characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly higher rates of innovation in immigrant-owned firms for 15 of 16 … different innovation measures; the only exception is for copyright/trademark. The immigrant advantage holds for older firms as …
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Works Councils and Performance Appraisals
Grund, Christian - 2019
Drawing on two large German representative data sets, we analyze the role of works councils for the use of performance appraisals (PA). We distinguish between the incidence of performance appraisal systems as intended by the firm and their actual implementation on the level of the individual...
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction : Theory and Evidence
Grund, Christian - 2005
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage increases. It is shown that when employees can influence their wages by exerting effort, myopic utility...
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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana - 2014
We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries.We find substantial heterogeneity in...
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Managerial Practices and Student Performance : Evidence from Changes in School Principals
Di Liberto, Adriana; Giua, Ludovica; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2023
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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Die deutsche Forschungslandschaft : starke regionale Disparitäten
Keller, Dietmar; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Stiller, Silvia - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 84 (2004) 2, pp. 121-125
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