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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
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Corporate finance and restructuring: evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Köke, Jens; Salem, Tanja - 2000
so for those firms with high levels of debt. However, downsizing is limited by soft budget constraints. …
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Employment Adjustments on the Internal and External Labour Market: An Empirical Study with Personnel Records of a German Company
Gerlach, Knut; Hübler, Olaf - 2008
Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Fluktuation im Post Merger Integrationsprozess
Grimpe, Christoph - 2005
untersucht daher die Determinanten der Arbeitszufriedenheit und deren Auswirkungen auf die Fluktuation im Post Merger … Integrationsprozess. Es zeigt sich, dass für eine hohe Arbeitszufriedenheit und entsprechend geringe Fluktuation insbesondere die …
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Teaching, organization, and personal problems: Evidence from reforming tertiary education in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2010
Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by Bachelor and Master programs. This study examines the question of how the choice of a new Bachelor program as opposed to a traditional degree program has affected first-year...
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Arbeitszufriedenheit und Fluktuation im Post Merger Integrationsprozess
Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
untersucht daher die Determinanten der Arbeitszufriedenheit und deren Auswirkungen auf die Fluktuation im Post Merger … Integrationsprozess. Es zeigt sich, dass für eine hohe Arbeitszufriedenheit und entsprechend geringe Fluktuation insbesondere die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098411
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297450
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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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