In this paper we use a very large matched database on firms and employees to analyze theuse of temporary agencies by low earners, and to estimate the impact of temp employmenton subsequent employment outcomes for these workers...

On December 9, 1999, Yves Cizaire, manager of MIS, had just returned from a steering committeemeeting where a difficult decision had been made. After having successfully implemented SAP´sERP software package R/3 in the head office and two distribution centers using a phasedimplementation...

This paper examines the impact of the Working Families Tax Credit (WFTC) on employment retention and advancement. The WFTC, which replaced Family Credit in October 1999, supplemented earnings of low paid workers living in low income families. It was designed to increase the financial incentive...

Recent surveys report that firms claim they do not rely heavily on patents in order toappropriate a return on their innovation. Yet, firms do patent, as indicated by the largenumber of patents that are granted. This paper offers a possible resolution to this puzzle.It takes a simplified version...

The theory of endogenous technical change has deeply contributed to our understanding ofthe fundamental sources of economic growth and development. In this chapter we surveyimportant contributions in the field by focussing on the basic structure of endogenous growthmodels with horizontal as well...

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost StructureCensus, we analyze the differences of technical efficiency across industries. Technicalefficiency is estimated by firms’ fixed effects. One striking result is that the distribution oftechnical efficiency across...

This paper attempts to develop a spatial model of economic growth in which technology and externalities are assumed to be accountable for production in geographical space. Linking externalities to the extent of intensity of production across locations in continuous space, we introduce spatial...

This paper investigates some crucial aspects of the recent development of industrial districts in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, where this type of spatial agglomeration of industrial firms has flourished since the period immediately after the Second World War. In particular, it is aimed at...

Wie lassen sich die Entwicklungen zur Informationsgesellschaft mit den Herausforderungendes nachhaltigen Wirtschaftens verknüpfen - sowohl strategisch für die gesamteBranche als auch ganz praktisch im einzelnen Unternehmen? Unter dieser ambitioniertenFragestellung begann im Sommer 2001 ein...