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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of the German Labour Market Reform
Clauss, Markus; Schnabel, Reinhold - 2008
We estimate the effects of the reform of the German Unemployment Insurance that replaced the wage related Unemployment Assistance with an income maintenance program and stronger means testing. We model the tax-benefit system and use the Socio-Economic Panel. We estimate a discrete labour supply...
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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
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Knowledge Production in Nanomaterials: An Application of Spatial Filtering to Regional Systems of Innovation
Patuelli, Roberto; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
Nanomaterials are seen as a key technology for the 21st Century, and much is expected of them in terms of innovation and economic growth. They could open the way to many radically new applications, which would form the basis of innovative products. In this context, it seems all the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298075
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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
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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
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Publicly Funded R&D Collaborations and Patent Outcome in Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297272
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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!
Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297279
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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297281
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Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Steiner, Viktor - 2003
-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of unemployment in Germany by many … typically assumed by contributors to recent discussions on the potential labour market effects of welfare reforms in Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297285
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R&D and Subsidies at the Firm Level: An Application of Parametric and Semi-Parametric Two-Step Selection Models
Hussinger, Katrin - 2003
This paper analyzes the effects of public R&D subsidies on R&D expenditure in the German manufacturing sector. The focus is on the question whether public R&D funding stimulates or crowds out private investment. Cross sectional data at the firm level is used. By apllying parametric and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297313