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

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

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2011, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socio … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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 …

This paper reviews the current state of knowledge on the link between education and wage inequality in Germany. The …, especially between East and West Germany. Both the between and within educational levels wage inequality changed little over time … Germany. …