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Occupational choice and social contacts across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

This paper tests the importance of social contacts on entrepreneurship. To measure differences in the interconnectedness of social contacts, we compare rural and agglomerated areas. A smaller community size in rural areas generates greater network closure. Agents' neighborhoods are more likely...

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region’s lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there...

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Technology, outsourcing, and the demand for heterogeneous labor: Exploring the industry dimension

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - 2010

It has become common within the literature of skill-biased technological change to look at technologies, as well as their impact on the demand for labor as homogeneous across industries. This paper challenges this view. Using a linked employer-employee panel of Germany differentiated by...

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Occupations at risk: The task content and job security

Nedelkoska, Ljubica - 2010

While earlier literature proposed a monotonic relationship between the skill level (as measured by educational attainment) and employment prospects, recent literature suggests that this relationship has changed and that it is now necessary to distinguish between different kinds of skills and...

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Cluster innovation along the industry lifecycle

Eisingerich, Andreas; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2008

interorganizational network strength, openness, university collaboration, and intrapreneurship on radical innovation across adolescent and …

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Demography and innovative entrepreneurship

Bönte, Werner; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2007

-64 years old. A more detailed analysis of the working-age distribution suggests that startups in knowledge-based (high …

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Incumbent innovation and entry by spinoff

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan - 2008

incumbents are not willing or able to exploit. Accordingly, incumbent innovation determines exploitable knowledge externalities … spawned from incumbents are not necessarily a threat; they can complement incumbents' production by commercializing knowledge … for spinoffs while, at the same time, spinoffs are expected to influence incumbent innovation. To overcome this problem of …

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The extension of clusters: Differences-in-difference evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy

Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - 2008

Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was to create a Bavarian-wide innovation network in support of state …-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased … the likelihood of innovation by a firm in the targeted industry by 4 to 7 percentage points. However, this effect is …

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