Arbeitszeitkonten stellen gegenwärtig das bedeutendste und am weitesten verbreitete Instrument der Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung dar. 29% der Betriebe in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland setzen Arbeitszeitkonten ein; für 40% der abhängig Beschäftigten werden Arbeitszeitkonten geführt. Dies...

Hochschulen treffen derzeit auf veränderte Rahmenbedingungen. Um langfristig denWettbewerb um Drittmittel, die besten Professoren, wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter undStudenten gewinnen zu können, ist eine Differenzierung vom Wettbewerb unumgänglich.Aufbauend auf theoretischen Grundlagen wird...

Both the European Community, its member countries and the United States have stimulated schools to implement entrepreneurship programs into schooling curricula on a large scale, based on the idea that entrepreneurial competencies and mindsets must be developed at school. The leading and...

We partner with Ecuador's government to implement a centralized school choice system using a Deferred Acceptance algorithm in Manta. Our study evaluates the welfare impact of transitioning from a distance-based assignment system to one that incorporates families' preferences. Results show that...

This article explores Bruno Amable's Diversity of Capitalism approach to analyze educational systems in the European Union (EU28). The main goal is to identify the main clusters of educational systems with regard to their institutional characteristics. Second goal of the analysis is to evaluate...

Academic literature can be wordy and hard to understand. This letter discusses the application of the "pitching research" template by Faff (2015, 2016) as a useful tool to help PhD students in understanding the literature – and particularly the "key" papers – that they read for their...

The productivity slowdown in many OECD countries over the last decades coincided with a significant deceleration in human capital growth. We show that nearly one-sixth of this productivity slowdown can be attributed to a decline in human capital growth, mainly driven by the decline in the...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of technological opportunities on the innovation activities of firms, depending on their absorptive capacities. The importance and impacts of the ability of firms to use external knowledge sources were inquired especially for external knowledge...

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.