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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany

Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001

This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...

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Expected job loss in East Germany shortly before German unification

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Giesecke O'Shea, … - 1992

We investigate expectations concerning future job loss in the former German Democratic Republic shortly before the economic, monetary and social union in July 1990. In order to model these expectations, we take detailed account of individual heterogeneity, the availability and interpretation of...

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Planning for self-employment at the beginning of a market economy: evidence from individual data of East German workers

Lechner, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1992

We investigate the plans of individual workers concerning future self-employment in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) shortly before the economic, monetary and social union in June/July 1990. Our data base is the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) East. We find that the desire to...

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Exposure to television and individual beliefs: Evidence from a natural experiment

Hennighausen, Tanja - 2012

Does the information provided by mass media have the power to persistently affect individual beliefs about the drivers of success in life? To answer this question empirically, this contribution exploits a natural experiment on the reception of West German television in the former German...

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Evaluating the Impacts of Subsidies on Innovation Activities in Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Radić, Dubravko - 2005

market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data … set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994?2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at … innovation experience, the results further highlight the important role of knowledge provided by skilled employees and unobserved …

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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level

Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert - 1999

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

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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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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective

Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008

outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper …

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