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Determinants of the acquisition of smaller firms by larger incumbents in high-tech industries: Are they related to innovation and technology sourcing?
Wagner, Marcus - 2007
these issues for three high-tech industries, namely semiconductor manufacturing, biotechnology and electronic design …
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Reducing start-up costs for new firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293727
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Reducing start-up costs for New Firms: The double dividend on the labor market
Dulleck, Uwe; Frijters, Paul; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
insurance against unemployment caused by labor market frictions and hence increases the incentives for education. We show within … a matching model that reducing the start-up costs for new firms results in higher take-up rates of education. It also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294544
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294907
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Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2009
This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298802
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Aspekty efektivnosti při volbě profese a školy: Přizpůsobují se pražské střední školy potřebám podniků?
Benáček, Vladimír - 2010
In this paper we study three crucial questions of economic decision-making: a) How are the people motivated in the choice of profession (career) and schools? This is also a decision that deals with the criteria for building the human capital of various specialisations. b) Can enterprises rely on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322163
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A model of human capital, time discounting and economic growth
Bauer, Michal; Chytilová, Julie - 2008
development regimes and it illustrates wider role of education in tackling possible development traps. …
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Does the early bird catch the worm? Instrumental variable estimates of educational effects of age of school entry in Germany
Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2005
We estimate the effect of age of school entry on educational attainment using three different data sets for Germany, sampling pupils at the end of primary school, in the middle of secondary school and several years after secondary school. Results are obtained based on instrumental variable...
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324788