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Who gets the money? : the dynamics of R&D project subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor) - 2009 - Rev. version

This paper looks at which firms receive R&D project grants and how this public support evolves over time by considering in particular firm’s previous participation. The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects...

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Who gets the money? : the dynamics of R&D project subsidies in Germany

Aschhoff, Birgit (contributor) - 2008

The question of the allocation of public R&D funding is becoming particularly important when it comes to identifying the effects of state subsidies, in terms of input or output additionality. This analysis goes one important step further than the existing literature by including the time...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003671251

Physical activity of adults : a survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - 2014 - This version: October 2014

We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...

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Steuerpolitik in Deutschland : eine Halbzeitbilanz der aktuellen Legislaturperiode im Kontext europäischer Entwicklungen

Bräutigam, Rainer; Spengel, Christoph - 2015

Seit der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008/2009 haben sich die steuerlichen Rahmenbedingungen in Deutschland im Grundsatz … der EU zeigt erste Konsequenzen des steuerlichen Stillstands in Deutschland auf. Im Vergleich zu anderen europäischen … Ländern werden die steuerlichen Standortbedingungen für Unternehmen in Deutschland zusehends unattraktiver. …

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Inequality of income acquisition : the role of childhood circumstances

Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas; Roemer, John E.; Ungerer, … - 2015

Many studies have estimated the effect of circumstances on income acquisition. Perhaps surprisingly, the fraction of inequality attributable to circumstances is usually quite small - in the advanced democracies, on the order of 20%. One reason for this is the lack of data on circumstance...

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Ist der Subtraktionstest ein geeignetes Verfahren zur Ermittlung missbräuchlich überhöhter Netznutzungsentgelte?

Elberfeld, Walter (contributor); … - 2004

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Employee recognition and performance : a field experiment

Bradler, Christiane; Dur, Robert A. J.; Neckermann, Susanne - 2013

This paper reports the results from a controlled field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of public recognition on employee performance. We hired more than 300 employees to work on a three-hour data-entry task. In a random sample of work groups, workers unexpectedly received...

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Direct democracy and local public finances under cooperative federalism

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Grigoriadis, … - 2013

This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in 1995 to study the fiscal effects of direct democracy. In the first part of the paper, we establish the relationship between referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new...

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How selective are real wage cuts? : a micro-analysis using linked employer-employee data

Hirsch, Boris; Zwick, Thomas - 2013

Using linked employer–employee panel data for Germany, this paper investigates whether firms implement real wage reductions in a selective manner. In line with insider–outsider and several strands of efficiency wage theory, we find strong evidence for selective wage cuts with...

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Aufsichtsratsverflechtungen und ihr Einfluss auf die Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen

Entorf, Horst; Gattung, Florian; Möbert, Jochen; … - 2008

Der vorliegende Aufsatz untersucht den Einfluss von Aufsichtsratsvernetzungen auf die Entwicklung der Vorstandsbezüge von DAX-Unternehmen. Die kombinierte Anwendung von Methoden der sozialen Netzwerkanalyse und der Panelökonometrie erleichtert die Erfassung der Struktur der...

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