that the larger companies benefit from a higher likelihood of a subsidy receipt is offset by the phenomenon that smaller …

We evaluate the effect of the Apprenticeship Bonus, an employment subsidy programme, on early dropout of apprenticeship … searched for apprenticeship positions unsuccessfully directly leaving school and analyse the effect of the subsidy on the risk … of apprenticeship dropout. Even though the subsidy provides strong incentives to prevent dropout, we do not find …

In this paper, we identify key drivers and barriers for the adoption of building energy retrofits in Germany, which is … Germany, that was conducted as a computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI). In the survey, respondents were asked directly …

In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany …

In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the … 2011. The analysis is based on a structural model of the R&D subsidy process which allows to estimate the benefits of R … of the subsidy on the federal government’s utility as well as on firm profits. Assuming a welfare-maximizing federal …