In this paper the importance and the effects of technological opportunities, stemming from academic research, on the innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of academic research to firms' innovation activities is...

Die Entwicklung und Nutzung neuer Technologien basiert zunehmend darauf, daß akademische Forschung und industrielle Innovationsaktivitäten miteinander verknüpft werden müssen. Die Zielsetzung des Beitrages besteht deshalb darin, für den Bereich der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie die...

In this paper the importance and the effects of technological opportunities, stemming from academic research, on the innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supplyindustry are investigated.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht die Kooperationsneigung der deutschen Automobilzulieferindustrie.

In this paper the importance and the effects of technological opportunities, stemming from academic research, on the innovation activities of firms in the German automobile supply industry are investigated. We observe that the contribution of academic research to firms' innovation activities is...

We assess the impact of Rhode Island's Family Independence Program (FIP) on the employment and earnings of current and former cash assistance recipients. We use administrative data from many sources, including data from state cash assistance records and from employer reports of employment and...

Schools are essential in forming human capital and in improving the long-term health of the economy. They are also heavily reliant on state and local funds, which were severely depleted during the Great Recession. To alleviate some of the strain on local budgets, the federal government passed...

Schools play a crucial role in human capital development, and were one of the many elements of government adversely affected by the Great Recession. Using a rich panel data set of New York State school districts and a trend-shift analysis, we examine how the funding and expenditure dynamics of...

We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...

An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...