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Technological learning, policy regimes and growth in a "globalized" economy: General patterns and the Latin American experience
Castaldi, Carolina; Cimoli, Mario; Correa, Nelson; … - 2004
The aim of this work is to investigate the role played by the so-called 'globalization' processes of the last couples of decades on the international patterns of technological learning and on the distribution of incomes and growth. First, we re-assess the evidence on the general patterns of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328522
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The patterns of output growth of firms and countries: New evidence on scale invariances and specificities
Castaldi, Carolina; Dosi, Giovanni - 2007
This work brings together two distinct pieces of evidence concerning, at the macro level, international distributions of incomes and their dynamics, and, at the micro level, the size distributions of firms and the properties of their growth rates. First, our empirical analysis provides a new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328462
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Socioeconomic heritage and rapid firm growth
Wyrwich, Michael - 2009
out both for West Germany - a mature market economy - and for East Germany, which operated under a centrally planned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267124
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Empirical Essays in the Economics of Ageing and the Economics of Innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
sources on small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in Thuringia. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698343
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Wage Mobility in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schnitzlein, Daniel - 2011
markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage … mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s …
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Earnings Prospects for People with Migration Background in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
Less than half of the people with migration background living in Germany possess foreign citizenship. Hence, using … Germany lead to better earnings prospects compared to degrees obtained abroad for persons with migration background …. Independently of gender and skill level, the estimates affirm higher earnings to educational attainment in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297935
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The Immigrant Wage Gap in Germany
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Gernandt, Johannes; Aldashev, Alisher - 2008
these two groups in Germany. The estimates show a substantial gap for both groups with respect to natives. Discarding … Germany is an important component of economic integration and degrees obtained abroad are valued less. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298665
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The optimal choice of a reference standard for income comparisons: indirect evidence from immigrants' return visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2009
I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298808
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Short-term training programs for immigrants: do effects differ from natives and why?
Aldashev, Alisher; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
welfare recipients in Germany. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between both groups and what might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300013
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Temporary extra jobs for immigrants: Merging lane to employment or dead-end road in welfare?
Thomsen, Stephan L.; Walter, Thomas - 2010
We evaluate the effects of the most frequently used German welfare-to-work program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and what might cause these potential differences. Our results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300378