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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries

Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...

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New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany

Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001

rich data set. The paper shows that innovation expenditures and investments in information and communication technologies …

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The Determinants and Effects of Environmental Product Innovations - An Analysis on the Basis of Case Studies

Tuerpitz, Katharina - 2003

, regulation appears to be one of the main drivers of ecological innovation. New technology is the second most important stimulus …

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Determinanten des technischen Fortschritts auf Branchenebene: Ein Überblick

Harabi, Najib - 1997

Die heutige intensive Auseinandersetzung mit dem Fragenkomplex "technischer Fortschritt" hat verschiedene historische Wurzeln und entstammt verschiedenen Forschungsrichtungen. Technischer Fortschritt wird heute von den meisten Ökonomen als ökonomisches Phänomen anerkannt, dem volle...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999

The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....

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Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level

Falk, Martin - 1999

employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm?s innovation … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment …

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Non-technological and Technological Innovation: Strange Bedfellows?

Schmidt, Tobias; Rammer, Christian - 2007

Non-technological innovation is an important element of firms? innovation activities that both supplement and … complement technological innovation, i.e. the introduction of new products and new processes. We analyse the spread of … nontechnological innovation in firms, their relation to technological innovation, and their effects to firm performance and success …

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Dynamic Optimal Capital Structure and Technological Change

Lööf, Hans - 2003

This paper incorporates the cost of adjustment between observed and optimal leverage in explaining the variation in firm?s equity or bank-debt financing investments. Using a dynamic adjustment approach identifies the determinants to capital structure between different financial systems. In...

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How clean is clean? Incremental versus radical technological change in coal-fired power plants

Rennings, Klaus; Markewitz, Peter; Vögele, Stefan - 2009

(PPCC) as a radical innovation and supercritical coal-fired power plants as an incremental innovation are compared. An ex … sector of large-scale power plants is that an innovation is more likely to succeed the more it follows established …

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