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Gewerkschaftsmitgliedschaft entsprechend geht ein höherer Organisationsgrad c. p. mit einem geringeren Lohnniveau und einer Reduktion residualer …
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Does globalization restrict the leeway for national budgetary policy? With the help of cluster and discriminant … dimensions are included in the analysis: tax structure, expenditure structure, public debt and budget size. Globalization as a … globalization does indeed matter for government budgets. However, substantial room for an individual national policy particularly in …
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This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. the organizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collected and evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domestic R&D managers? We envision...
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Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...
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We focus on one of the core competitive capabilities of modern firms: the ability to deliver successful innovations in a globalized environment. Companies literally find themselves confronted with a world of ideas. The challenge remains to decide which impulses should be on top of the list and...
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This paper treats the question to what extent globalization trends restrict a countryspecific regulation policy in …: financial market, product markets, labour markets and trade. After a short discussion of the link between globalization and … executed. The evidence shows that globalization in the narrow sense of trade openness and capital mobility has a rather limited …
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At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....
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Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than firms doing R&D only in their home country. One main...
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examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a … graduates face a higher risk of getting unemployed in Germany than in France. Concerning the reemployment prospects of the … unemployed, they are better in France than in West-Germany at all education levels, but particularly for the unemployed with a …
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mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might … characteristics appear to affect both the birth and the employment decisions in a different way in France and Germany. Some of the …
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