We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional … consequential choices of startups. We argue that middle management is positively related to introducing product innovations because … sample of German high-tech startups, we find support for our conjectures. …

employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set …

for a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills in the international analysis and are almost twice as large in Germany …

deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred …

fragmentation and wages. Exploiting a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine Eastern and Western European countries and the … United States, we study the relationship between individual workers' wages and industry ties into global value chains (GVCs …). We find an inverse (but weak) relationship between the degree of industries' involvement in GVCs and wages. Workers …