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We investigate the impact of actors' positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total...
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We investigate the impact of actors' positions within regional innovator networks on their innovative performance. The networks of four selected regions are based on information on patent applicants and inventors. Count data regressions show positive effects on innovation of both the total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887135
Jena, Nordhausen und Ingolstadt. Die vergleichende Analyse belegt zunächst, dass sich der Umschlagsprozess sehr stark … unterscheidet: So verließen im September 2004 0,2 % der Arbeitslosen in Ingolstadt den Arbeitslosenpool, in Jena sind im gleichen … zwischen Jena und Nordhausen nur geringfügig – zumindest im Vergleich mit dem westdeutschen Arbeitsamtsbezirk Ingolstadt …
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den Lebensbedingungen in der DDR (mit)bestimmt werden. …
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We study location choices and firm performance in the German machine tool industry, focusing on the forced migration of East German firms after World War II. Our analysis of location choices supports earlier findings that industry agglomerations attract further entrants. Relocating firms...
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Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...
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Whole life insurance plays an important role in household saving. However, empirical evidence on its determinants is scarce. This paper studies two natural experiments to identify the effects of tax incentives and bequest motives on life-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000...
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This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical...
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Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren … große Drittmittel- und Wirtschaftsorientierung allein, die es in ähnlicher Form auch in der DDR gegeben hat, garantiert …
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