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Do older workers lower IT-enabled productivity? : firm-level evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene (contributor); Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...

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Firm heterogeneity and wages under different bargaining regimes : does a centralised union care for low-productivity firms?

Gürtzgen, Nicole (contributor) - 2009

This paper studies the relationship between wages and the degree of firm heterogeneity in a given industry under different wage setting structures. To derive testable hypotheses, we set up a theoretical model that analyses the sensitivity of wages to the variability in productivity conditions in...

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Crime and the labour market: evidence from a survey of inmates

Entorf, Horst (contributor) - 2009

In this paper data from a survey of 1,771 inmates conducted in 31 German prisons provide microeconometric evidence on the relationship between individual anticipated labour market opportunities and the perceived probability of future recidivism. Results show that inmates with poor labour market...

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk (contributor); … - 2009

analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … wage inequality in Germany. …

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Employment adjustments on the internal and external labour market : an empirical study with personnel records of a German company

Gerlach, Knut (contributor); Hübler, Olaf (contributor) - 2008

Firms are affected by the product demand. This leads to employment adjustments. In the literature we find only very few contributions investigating the issue whether internal adjustments are linked and which relationships exist with external adjustments. Are they of a complementary or...

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The impact of innovation on employment in small and medium enterprises with different growth rates

Zimmermann, Volker (contributor) - 2008

This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...

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Oil and unemployment in Germany

Löschel, Andreas (contributor); … - 2009

In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …

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Host country contingencies on knowledge protection strategies of multinational firms : bring a knife to a gunfight?

Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor); Shehu, Edlira (contributor) - 2009

more than 1,500 firms in Germany. The results indicate that legal forms of knowledge protection are used more restrictively …

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To be financed or not : the role of patents for venture capital financing

Häussler, Carolin (contributor); … - 2009

This paper investigates how patent applications and grants held by new ventures improve their ability to attract venture capital (VC) financing. We argue that investors are faced with considerable uncertainty and therefore rely on patents as signals when trying to assess the prospects of...

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Choosing from the reform menu card : individual determinants of labour market policy preferences

Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor); … - 2009

Germany. For that purpose we make use of the representative German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). This survey offers data to …

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