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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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R&D drivers in young innovative companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal dataset comprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … in the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistent and more erratic. Moreover, our … results suggest that firm and market characteristics play a distinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of …

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Defensive Innovations

Koeniger, Winfried - 2002

Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...

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An empirical model of growth through product innovation

Lentz, Rasmus; Mortensen, Dale T. - 2005

through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …

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The nexus between labor diversity and firm's innovation

Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Pytlikova, Mariola - 2012

In this paper we investigate the nexus between firm labor diversity and innovation using a linked employer … and demographic characteristics to valuable firm's innovation activity. The latter is measured by: (1) the firm … firm's innovation outcomes. …

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When the early bird catches the worm: The impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with …

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Individual Rationality and Learning: Welfare Expectations in East Germany Post-Reunification

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael A. - 2002

In this paper we test the Rational Expectations hypothesis using longitudinal data on expectations and realizations of individual welfare for East Germans in the years following reunification. German reunification was unexpected and delivered a large shock to the future prospects of the...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however...

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This paper studies the consequences of enterprise privatization and liberalization of product markets, labor markets, and imports in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine....

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