observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … Germany are similar to those found for Spain and the UK. …

We analyze the effectiveness of publicly financed training and retraining programs in east Germany as measured by their …

European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for Germany are similar to those …

policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …