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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship: a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

general as well as in technology- and knowledge-intensive subsectors. We compare Germany and Portugal which exhibit, though EU … member states, different institutional infrastructures for entrepreneurship. Based on a harmonized dataset, our results … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …

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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?

Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010

welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might …

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? Microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been ?rigid? in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Matching of Individuals for Start-Ups: A Test of the O-Ring Theory

Müller, Bettina - 2008

In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...

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Ability matching and survival of start-ups

Müller, Bettina - 2009

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

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Heterogeneous Returns to Training: An Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables

Kuckulenz, Anja; Maier, Michael - 2006

Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...

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Noncognitive skills, school achievements and educational dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2009

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio …

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Returns to Education and Individual Heterogeneity

Pohlmeier, Winfried; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Maier, Michael - 2004

In this paper, human capital investments are evaluated by assuming heterogeneous returns to education. We use the potential outcome approach to measure the causal effect of human capital investments on earnings as a continuous treatment effect. Empirical evidence is based on a sample of West...

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Long-Run Effects of Public Sector Sponsored Training in West Germany

Miquel, Ruth; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - 2005

Between 1991 and 1997 West Germany spent on average about 3.6 bn Euro per year on public sector sponsored training …

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Continuous Training and Firm Productivity in Germany

Zwick, Thomas - 2002

training forms in Germany. It hereby takes account of selectivity of training activities, unobserved heterogeneity of …

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