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Eurozone : Konvergenz bei Spitzentechnologien, Divergenz bei wissensintensiven Dienstleistungen

Schiersch, Alexander; Gornig, Martin - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 37, pp. 3-9

Die Wirtschaft der Eurozone ist stark auf forschungsintensive Industrien spezialisiert. In den einzelnen Euroländern ist die Bedeutung dieser Branchen sehr unterschiedlich, besonders groß ist sie in Deutschland. Anders als in der aktuellen Diskussion zum Teil unterstellt, hat die Einführung...

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Innovationsfinanzierung im Mittelstand : Zugang zu Krediten erleichtern!

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 49, pp. 20-27

Viele kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU) können Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) nicht allein aus Eigenmitteln finanzieren. Die Fremdfinanzierung risikoreicher FuE-Projekte mit Krediten ist ihnen aber auch nur begrenzt möglich. Die Förderprogramme des Bundes, der Länder und der EU sind...

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Innovationspolitik für den Mittelstand hat sich bewährt

Belitz, Heike; Eickelpasch, Alexander; Lejpras, Anna - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 49, pp. 3-11

Die Innovationspolitik des Bundes und der Länder bietet dem Mittelstand ein breites Spektrum an Programmen zur Stärkung von Forschung und Entwicklung der kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen und ist besonders auf den Wissenstransfer ausgerichtet. In den letzten Jahren wurden die Programme...

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Verdoorn-Kaldor’s law : an empirical analysis with time series data in the United States

Castiglione, Concetta - In: Advances in management & applied economics 1 (2011) 3, pp. 135-151

Verdoorn's law refers to a statistical relationship between the long-run growth rate of labour productivity and the growth rate of output, usually for the manufacturing sector. Since the sixties this relationship has been examined in a large number of studies using a wide variety of data sets...

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The early diffusion of the steam engine in Britain, 1700 - 1800 : a reappraisal

Nuvolari, Alessandro; Verspagen, Bart; Tunzelmann, Nick von - In: Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and … 5 (2011) 3, pp. 291-321

We examine the diffusion of steam technology across British counties during the eighteenth century. First, we provide new estimates for the regional variations in the timing, pace and extent of usage of steam engines. Our main data source is an updated version of the list of steam engines...

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Benrolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-29

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees, makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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The costs of worker displacement in urban labor markets of China

Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

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The impact of economic crisis on unemployment and labor migration in the northeast of Thailand

Sricharoen, Thitiwan - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 2, pp. 103-122

This study aims to examine the characteristics of unemployment and migration of labor in the Northeastern of Thailand … and to study the unemployment problems faced by local workers. The samples used in the study were 455 unemployed workers …-30 years old. The unemployed were mostly single at 52.97%. Factors that relate to the severity of the unemployment problem are …

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …

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