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This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
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-determination slows down technological progress and reduces innovativeness. -- Co-determination ; innovation ; patents …
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This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155322
out their innovation activities and their decisions about external sourcing of knowledge through the outsourcing of R&D or … this association is positive, and that companies that assign greater importance to factors that impede their innovation … barrier to innovation is positively associated with technological cooperation especially in continuous R&D performers …
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear 'shadow of death' effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312020
Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291366
Using a large administrative dataset and methods of survival analysis, I analyze for the period 1994-2008 whether new establishments’ survival chances differ between East and West Germany and whether they converged over time. I find that new establishments in East Germany had relatively good...
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Using a 50 percent sample of all establishments in the German private sector, we report that spinoffs are larger and initially employ more skilled and more experienced workers than other startups. Controlling for these and other differences, we find that spinoffs are less likely to exit than...
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear "shadow of death" effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680351