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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees

Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016

We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...

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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce

Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008

This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the … analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the enhancement of teamwork on the probability of adopting new … adopt new technologies and the older the workforce is, the less likely is the adoption of new technologies. Secondly, the …

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Age and productivity : evidence from linked employer employee data

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2009

In most Western, industrialised countries the workforce is ageing rapidly. In order to assess the possible consequences … of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … deviations point to important variation in the age productivity profile among establishments. -- ageing workforce ; age …

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Seniority and job stability : a quantile regression approach using matched employer-employee data

Boockmann, Bernhard (contributor); … - 2007

Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or human capital theory or dual labor market approaches. These models may, however, apply to different degrees at different durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical...

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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?

Goebel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010

of age-productivity profiles. -- Ageing workforce ; age-productivity-profile ; personnel management ; HRM …

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Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement

Andries, Petra; Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2012

It is known that small firms rely mainly on the CEO’s individual knowledge for developing innovations. Recent work suggests that this approach is inefficient since it underutilizes other employees’ knowledge. We study to which extent using CEOs, managers and non-managerial employees’ ideas...

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Measuring the use of human resources practices and employee attitudes : the linked personnel panel

Kampkötter, Patrick; Mohrenweiser, Jens; Sliwka, Dirk; … - 2015

This paper introduces a new data source available for HRM researchers and personnel economists,the Linked Personnel Panel (LPP). The LPP is a longitudinal and representative employer-employee data set covering establishments in Germany and designed for quantitative empirical HR research. The LPP...

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Formelle und informelle berufliche Weiterbildung und Verdienst bei Arbeitnehmern und Selbständigen

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reize, Frank - 2000

Investitionen in Weiterbildung werden typischerweise durch die erwartete Zunahme individueller Fähigkeiten motiviert. In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, von welchen sozio-ökonomischen und beruflichen Merkmalen die Teilnahme an formeller und informeller beruflicher Weiterbildung abhängt, und...

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Older workers and the adoption of new technologies

Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2007

between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with … a higher share of younger employees are more likely to adopt new technologies and the older the workforce the less … likely is the adoption of new technologies. Furthermore the results exhibit that the age structure of the workforce should be …

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The targeted negative income tax (TNIT) in Germany . evidence from a quasi experiment

Spermann, Alexander (contributor); … - 2005

We report empirical evidence from the first field experiments to be conducted in Germany with program and control groups between 1999 and 2002. The evaluated program called ʺTargeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT)ʺ is a time-restricted employee subsidy for means-tested welfare recipients. We focus...

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