Similar Search Results

Low-wage careers: are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?

Mosthaf, Alexander; Schnabel, Claus; Stephani, Jens - 2010

Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e. less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269533

Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2008

The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298027

The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success: do subsidy history and size matter?

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298803

Who Gets the Money? The Dynamics of R&D Project Subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm's previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298811

Structural properties of cooperation networks in Germany: From basic to applied research

Brökel, Tom; Graf, Holger - 2010

industries. The study is based on a new data source on subsidized R&D cooperation in Germany, which is presented in detail and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281619

Quantifying optimal growth policy

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269804

Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2010

Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as … Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of … R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level data. To control for reverse causality, R&D-subsidy variables are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302586

Trade Labor, Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change

Koeniger, Winfried - 2001

This paper contributes to the debate on the effects of trade versus technological change on wage differentials. We propose an explanation of the stylized facts which is based on interactions between openness and technological change because of labor market institutions and government...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262449

In the Right Place at the Wrong Time : The Role of Firms and Luck in Young Workers? Careers

von Wachter, Till; Bender, Stefan - 2004

We exploit administrative data on young German workers and their employers to study the long-term effects of an early job loss. To account for non-random sorting of workers into firms with different turnover rates and for selective job mobility, we use changes over time in firm- and age-specific...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262087

Effort-Based Career Opportunities and Working Time

Bratti, Massimiliano; Staffolani, Stefano - 2005

In this paper we describe the hypothesis of effort-based career opportunities as a situation in which profit maximizing firms create incentives for employees to work longer hours than the bargained ones, by making career prospects dependent on working hours. When effortbased career opportunities...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262198