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Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
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Contrary to previous literature we hypothesize that interests of labor may well – like that of shareholders – aim at securing the long-run survival of the firm. Consequently, employee representatives on the supervisory board could well have an interest in increasing incentive-based...
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Using representative data from the IAB Establishment Panel, we show that employees in establishments with active owners are less likely to introduce a works council. Moreover, we show that, in case of an introduction, the new works council is less likely to survive if active owners are present....
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This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...
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Codetermination can be regarded as an extreme regulatory intervention of the legislator in the labor market which might affect the efficiency of production and the bargaining power of labor. Based on a model that covers both efficient bargaining and employment bargaining a simple equation is...
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This paper investigates the impact of the financial crisis on investment decisions in innovative versus non-innovative firms. Firms are defined as being innovative if they have introduced a new product to the market. The empirical test is based on data for the years before and after the recent...
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market (innovation). It turns out that spillovers from rivals lead to more imitation, while inputs from customers and … research institutions enhance original innovation. …
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Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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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 …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …
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