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Die Auswirkung der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten ostdeutscher Unternehmen
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001
Ostdeutsche Unternehmen werden seit der deutschen Wiedervereinigung bei staatlichen Subventionsprogrammen besonders berücksichtigt. Diese Studie untersucht die Auswirkungen der Forschungs- und Technologiepolitik auf die Innovationsaktivitäten von Unternehmen der neuen Bundesländer. Es stellt...
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The effects of public R&D subsidies on firms' innovation activities: the case of Eastern Germany
Almus, Matthias; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2001
This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question in this context is whether public funds stimulate R&D activities or simply crowd out privately financed R&D. Empirically, we investigate the average...
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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU
Heinze, Anja; Beninger, Denis; Beblo, Miriam; Laisney, … - 2003
We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom), focusing on self-selection into market work. Results show that selectivity correction has an impact on both wage estimates and wage gap decomposition. If...
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two …, we find that wages are lower for job changers for the group of training participants, so wages decrease when trained …
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Maintaining (locus of) control? Assessing the impact of locus of control on education decisions and wages
Piatek, Rémi; Pinger, Pia R. - 2010
comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive … effect only translates into labor income via the channel of education. Factor structure models are implemented on an …
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Aus der Not geboren? Besondere Merkmale und Determinanten von Gründungen aus der Arbeitslosigkeit
Niefert, Michaela; Tchouvakhina, Margarita - 2006
In dieser Studie werden Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit der Jahre 2003 und 2004 inklusive der seit Anfang 2003 geförderten Ich-AGs auf repräsentativer empirischer Basis analysiert. Es zeigt sich, dass Gründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit im Durchschnitt kleiner sind als andere Gründungen und...
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden: Empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999
In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of those were searching for an opportunity to get self-employed. In this study the determinants of the lookout for selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for...
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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000
The paper investigates determinants of formal and non-formal continuous vocational training and its income effects … on income are rather small or equal to zero with the self-employed and rather high among employed workers, both in the … group of trainees and non-trainees. Non-formal training has a non-zero effect on income as well. The determinants of income …
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Leaving unemployment for self-employment: a discrete duration analysis of determinants and stability of self-employment among former unemployed
Reize, Frank - 2000
The paper investigates the determinants and the success of self-employment among former unemployed. Self-employment has become an important re-employment opportunity during the last decade due to increasing subsidies. The econometric analysis is carried out using discrete hazard rate models on...
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