This paper explores the question of how immigrant employees affect a firm's capacity to absorb foreign knowledge. Using matched employer-employee data from Denmark for the years 1996 to 2009, we are able to show that non-Danish employees from technologically advanced countries contribute...

Der Autor der vorliegenden Dissertation geht der Frage nach, welchen Einfluss technologische Spillover-Effekte auf das Wirtschaftswachstum haben, und ob ihre Existenz staatliche Eingriffe im Bereich von Forschung und Entwicklung (F&E) rechtfertigen kann. Im Rahmen der vorgenommenen theoretischen...

Job-Market signaling is ranked high among the explanations why individuals engage voluntarily in OSS projects. If true, signaling implies the existence of a wage premium for OSS engagement. However, due to a lack of data this issue has not been tested previously. Based on a novel data set...

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we used a correlated random effects econometric framework to simultaneously estimate the within and between effects of age on subjective well-being. The proposed approach overcomes the ambiguity in the relationship between age and...