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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor
Falk, Martin - 2001
This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...
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The impact of venture capital on firm growth : an empirical investigation
Engel, Dirk - 2002
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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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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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From less promising to green? : technological opportunities and their role in (green) ICT innovation
Cecere, Grazia; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper aims to shed light on the role of technological opportunities for green innovation by studying the case of … Green ICT innovation. We test two hypotheses: (1) Firms active in low-opportunity technological areas are less innovative … Office with firm-level data from the German Innovation Panel (Mannheim Innovation Panel). The results are based on dynamic …
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Employment effects of different innovation activities microecomometric evidence
Peters, Bettina (contributor) - 2005 - [Rev]
Extending a recently developed multiproduct model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671049
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Environmental innovation and employment dynamics in different technology fields : an analysis based on the German community innovation survey 2009
Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - 2012
analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community … Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis at the firm level. The main focus of the paper lies on the analysis of the … adaptation behavior of firms with respect to the relationship of employment and (environmental) innovation. We use an endogenous …
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Beschäftigungsdynamik in jungen innovativen Unternehmen : empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1998
Die Ergebnisse der multivariaten Analysen zur Beschäftigungsdynamik und dem Wachstumspotential junger innovativer Unternehmen lassen erkennen, daß junge innovative Unternehmen signifikant höhere Wachstumsraten erzielen als junge Unternehmen mit traditionellen Produkten. Die Abschätzung der...
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Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany : a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms
Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.; Steil, Fabian - 1999
This empirical analysis deals with the determinants of growth and the explanation of variations in the growth between innovative and non-innovative start-ups. Based on theoretical models explaining the growth of firms, hypotheses on potential determinants are formulated. The regression results...
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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements
Zwick, Thomas - 1999
This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...
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