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Deregulation and the determinants of entry : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

Two years after the deregulation of the German interurban bus industry in January 2013, two new entrants emerged as market leaders: MeinFernbus (MFB) and FlixBus (FB). We use a comprehensive route-level data set to investigate the determinants of route entry for both providers. Applying survival...

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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - 2014

This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...

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Absorptive capacity and post-acquisition inventor productivity

Hussinger, Katrin - 2010

Innovationsaktivität im fusionierten Unternehmen sind umso stärker, je weniger die Unternehmensübernahme ex-ante geplant wurde oder je … kommerziellen Erfolg -sollte es akquirierenden Unternehmen erleichtern, das von den neuen Erfindern eingebrachte Wissen zu … evaluieren. Ein Unternehmen mit signifikanter Absorptionsfähigkeit sollte weiterhin besser in der Lage sein, das neueingebrachte …

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Business services in Germany : bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...

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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier : firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - 2014

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period...

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IT capital, job content and educational attainment

Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003

Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the "black box" surrounding the skill-biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...

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Building and blocking : the two faces of technology acquisition

Grimpe, Christoph; Hussinger, Katrin - 2008

Gaining access to technological assets and patents, in particular, has long been a major motive and objective for firm acquisitions. On the one hand, patents are used as a building instrument for the acquirer's technology portfolio. On the other hand, patents can be attractive because of their...

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Mobile and more productive? : firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use

Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2015 - This version December 2015

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers to the year 2014, when high-speed mobile internet...

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Does codetermination affect the composition of variable versus fixed parts of executive compensation?

Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2015

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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