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Growth determinants of start-ups in Eastern Germany : a comparison between innovative and non-innovative firms

Almus, Matthias; Nerlinger, Eric A.; Steil, Fabian - 1999

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung junger Unternehmen in den neuen Bundesländern. Diese werden …-innovativen Unternehmen im Verarbeitenden Gewerbe, die zwischen 1992 und 1996 gegründet wurden. Auf der Basis theoretischer Erklärungsansätze … werden zahlreiche Einflußfaktoren abgeleitet, die einen potentiellen Beitrag zur Erklärung des Wachstums junger Unternehmen …

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Curvature conditions and substitution pattern among capital, energy, materials and heterogeneous labour

Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1999

This study deals with the determinants of factor demand in 27 industries of the manufacturing sector during the period 1978 to 1990. Using a quadratic cost function, six production factors are distinguished : capital, energy, three types of labour and intermediate materials. A parametric test of...

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Imposing and testing curvature conditions on a Box-Cox function

Koebel, Bertrand M.; Falk, Martin; Laisney, François - 2000

We present a new method for imposing and testing concavity of a cost function using asymptotic least squares, which can easily be implemented even for cost functions which are nonlinear in parameters. We provide an illustration on the basis of a (generalized) Box-Cox cost function with six...

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Environmental tax differentiation between industries and households - implications for efficiency and employment : a multi-sector intertemporal CGE analysis for Germany

Böhringer, Christoph - 2002

This paper investigates the economic impacts of environmental tax reforms designed to reach given emission reduction targets for the German economy. Our focus is on the efficiency and employment implications of alternative schemes for emission tax differentiation between the production sector...

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An empirically-based taxonomy of Dutch manufacturing : innovation policy implications

Raymond, Wladimir; Mohnen, Pierre A.; Palm, Franz C.; … - 2004

The paper studies the degree of homogeneity of innovative behavior in order to determine empirically an industry classification of Dutch manufacturing that can be used for policy purposes. We use a twolimit tobit model with sample selection, which explains the decisions by business enterprises...

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Economic growth and Verdoorn's Law in the Spanish regions, 1962-1991

León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 1998

The aim of this paper is to test for the presence of dynamic increasing returns to scale in Spanish regional growth between 1962 and 1991. The theoretical framework within which this paper is based is the so-called Verdoorn's Law. Tests of the law are performed not only for the manufacturing...

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The impact of unions on wages in Brazilian manufacturing

Arbache, Jorge Saba - 1998

The empirical literature on the impact of unions on wages has stressed two major conclusions. Firstly, unionised workers earn a wage premium when compared to comparable nonunionised workers. Secondly, the dispersion of wages within the union sector is lower than in the nonunion sector. We...

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The effect on firms' productivity of accessibility : the Spanish Manufacturing Sector

Martín-Barroso, David; Núñez, Juan A.; Velázquez … - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...

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Small area estimation of labor productivity for the Italian manufacturing SME cross-classified by region, industry and size

Ferrante, M. R.; Trivisano, C.; Fabrizi, E. - 2013

In this paper we propose a new small area estimation methodology aimed at the estimation of Value Added, Labor Cost and related competitiveness indicators for subsets of the population of Italian small and medium sized manufacturing firms classified according to geographical region, industrial...

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Survey evidence on wage rigidity and unemployment : Sweden in the 1990s

Agell, Jonas; Lundborg, Per - 1999

This study reports the results from a repeat survey among managers in Swedish manufacturing, designed to explore how a severe and prolonged macroeconomic shock affects wage rigidity and unemployment. Our second survey was conducted in 1998, when the unemployment rate was much higher, and the...

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