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

Since the beginning of the transformation of East Germany from a socialist planned economy to a market economy, there …, and political problems of East Germany, thereby narrowing the gap between East and West Germany. This paper uses panel … West Germany observed during the first years after reunification has not been maintained. In short, some East German …

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

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 …

post-unified Germany. The findings suggest that the socialist regime significantly damaged this mechanism of an …

examines the development and the impact of publicly funded R&D consortia in Germany. The paper describes the history of R …&D funding in Germany with a focus on the development of measures encouraging collaborative R&D activities among firms and public …

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … higher risk of entering unemployment whereas the risk, when unemployed, of not getting reemployed is lower than in Germany … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …