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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal

Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009

The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic … the specialization of skills has a positive effect on the level on new firm entry in all sectors. In contrast to this, our … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …

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Microgeography of innovation in the city : location patterns of innovative firms in Berlin

Rammer, Christian; Kinne, Jan; Blind, Knut - 2016

This paper investigates the micro-location pattern of innovative and non-innovative firms in Berlin using detailed information on the firms' addresses and their local environment. The study employs a unique, representative panel data set of Berlin-based firms from manufacturing and services...

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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?

Schulte, Patrick - 2015

This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

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Intangible assets and firm-level productivity

Crass, Dirk; Peters, Bettina - 2014

Firms invest huge amounts into intangible assets. This paper explores to which extent different kinds of intangible assets are conducive to firm-level productivity. Our study contributes to the literature by simultaneously comparing productivity effects of innovative capital, human capital,...

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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey

Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016

We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies...

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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour...

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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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Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Größe und Wachstum bei Gründungen : empirische Ergebnisse für West-Deutschland

Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A. - 1999

The present paper deals with the question whether 'Gibrat's law' is applicable to firms founded between 1989 and 1996 within the Western German manufacturing sector or not. The underlying assumption is that size of a firm has no influence on its growth. Growth is rather determined by a process...

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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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The shadow of death : an empirical analysis of the pre-exit performance of young German firms

Almus, Matthias - 2000

This paper makes an empirical contribution to confirm the stylized fact that the performance of firms deteoriates in the years before exit. For this reason we evaluate whether market exits differ significantly in their employment development in the years before market drop-out compared to...

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