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Dips and floors in workplace training: Using personnel records to estimate gender differences
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Muehler, Grit - 2011
Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304455
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Dips and floors in workplace training: Using personnel records to estimate gender differences
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Muehler, Grit - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
Using personnel records from a single large German firm in the financial industry, this paper provides detailed evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various workplace characteristics. We implement an age-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003570
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The Returns to Continuous Training in Germany: New Evidence from Propensity Score Matching Estimators
Muehler, Grit; Beckmann, Michael; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2007
The present paper examines the wage effects of continuous training programs using individual-level data from the German Socio Economic Panel (GSOEP). In order to account for selectivity in training participation we estimate average treatment effects (ATE and ATT) of general and firm-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297931
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More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2011
productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010304731
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311774
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Local knowledge spillovers and innovation persistence of firms
Holl, Adelheid; Peters, Bettina; Rammer, Christian - 2020
Recent empirical evidence has shown that firm's innovation behavior exhibits high persistency but not much is known … environment and asks how local knowledge spillovers affect firms' innovation persistence. The empirical analysis draws upon a … former evidence that persistency in innovation is driven by true state dependence. More importantly, we find that the local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167386
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957582
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More bits - more bucks? Measuring the impact of broadband internet on firm performance
Bertschek, Irene; Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024658
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384