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Accounting for the spouse when measuring inequality of opportunity
Peichl, Andreas; Ungerer, Martin - 2015
Existing literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) has failed to address the question as to how the circumstances and choices of spouses in a couple should be treated. By omitting information relevant to the spouse in IOp estimations, the implicit assumption was full responsibility for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010527119
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PISA: What makes the difference? : Explaining the gap in PISA Test scores between Finland and Germany
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001898545
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The relationship between R&D collaboration, subsidies and patenting activity : empirical evidence from Finnland and Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002040121
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Reduction in the long-term unemployment of the elderly : a success story from Finnland
Kyyrä, Tomi (contributor); Wilke, Ralf A. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002240654
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989027
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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701446
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The relationship between R&D collaboration, subsidies and patenting activity : empirical evidence from Finnland and Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2006 - Rev. version
This study focuses on the impact of innovation policies and R&D collaboration in Germany and Finland. We consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003670962
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Gender earnings gap in German firms : the impact of firm characteristics and institutions
Heinze, Anja (contributor); Wolf, Elke (contributor) - 2006
Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314702
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436068
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Invalid but infringed? : an analysis of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system
Cremers, Katrin; Gaessler, Fabian; Harhoff, Dietmar; … - 2014
We analyze the impact of the probabilistic nature of patents on the functioning of Germany’s bifurcated patent litigation system where infringement and validity of a patent are decided independently by different courts. We show that bifurcation creates situations in which a patent is held...
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