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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997

The paper analyses the theoretical and empirical relationship between employment, skill structure and innovation in … East and West German manufacturing firms. The econometric part builds on firm data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel 1993 …, 1994 and 1995. In the German industrial sector, especially in East Germany, employment has declined and the share of highly …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440719

Employment impacts of cleaner production : evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999

particular can not be expected to give substantial contributions to the solution of mass unemployment in Germany without using …

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Human capital and innovation in East and West German manufacturing firms

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428095

Employment impacts of cleaner production : evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999

particular can not be expected to give substantial contributions to the solution of mass unemployment in Germany without using …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428256

Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in ability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003755918

Self-productivity and complementarities in human development : evidence from the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the role of self-productivity and home resources in capability formation from infancy to adolescence. In addition, we study the complementarities between basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities and social as well as academic achievement. Our data are taken from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760038

Initial risk matrix, home resources, ability development and children's achievement

Blomeyer, Dorothea; Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; … - 2008

This paper investigates the development of basic cognitive, motor and noncognitive abilities from infancy to adolescence. We analyse the predictive power of these abilities, initial risk conditions and home resources for children's achievement. Our data are taken from the Mannheim Study of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784614

A socio-economic analysis of youth disconnectedness

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Seiberlich, Ruben R. - 2009

According to our research, some 12% of young people in Germany between the ages of 17 and 19 are disconnected, i.e. not …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902946

Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers

Gebel, Michael (contributor); … - 2007

The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....

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Age-dependent skill formation and returns to education

Pfeiffer, Friedhelm (contributor); … - 2007

In this study, we try to connect the economic literature on human capital formation with findings from neurobiology and psychology on early childhood development and self-regulation. Our basic framework for assessing the distribution of agespecific returns to investment in skills is an...

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