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Overqualification of graduates: Assessing the role of family background
Erdsiek, Daniel - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
Studies on the underlying mechanisms of social mobility commonly find that half of the intergenerational earnings persistence remains unexplained. Focusing on the phenomenon of overqualification, this study examines a transmission channel that might operate beyond the mechanisms previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011139790
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Incentives for Academic Entrepreneurship and Economic Performance: Sweden and the United States
Henrekson, Magnus; Rosenberg, Nathan - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The recent 'scientification' of commercial technology has brought the interface between universities and industry into sharp focus. In particular, academic entrepreneurship, i.e., the variety of ways in which academics take direct part in the commercialization of research, is widely discussed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419527
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Separating wheat and chaff: age-specific staffing strategies and innovative performance at the firm level
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2011
establishments. Finally, we do not find evidence that a youth-centred human resource strategy (always) fosters innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228821
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An Innovation Policy Framework: Bridging the Gap between Industrial Dynamics and Growth
Braunerhjelm, Pontus; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … accumulation, investment, and upgrading of knowledge and (ii) the implementation of mechanisms that enable knowledge to be … exploited such that growth and societal prosperity are encouraged. Knowledge is a necessary but far from sufficient condition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118578
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
representative evidence on the impact of the economic environment on employee opposition against the implementation of an innovation … innovation is an increase in employee performance, the firm experiences higher resistance, while resistance is lower in firms … aiming at increasing the product range by the innovation. Profit and turn over expectations of the firm and the outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098384
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Sweden’s School Choice Reform and Equality of Opportunity
Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students’ and schools’ locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818364
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Pitfalls in the Measurement of the Return to Education: An Assessment Using Swedish Data
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Mellander, Erik; Meyerson, … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1994
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818483
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Sweden's school choice reform and equality of opportunity
Edmark, Karin; Frölich, Markus; Wondratschek, Verena - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This study analyses whether the Swedish school choice reform, enacted in 1992, had different effects on students from different socio-economic backgrounds. We use detailed geographical data on students' and schools' locations to construct measures of the degree of potential choice. This allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985641
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The Creation of the EC Internal Market and Its Effects on the Competitiveness of Producers in Other Industrial Economies
Eliasson, Gunnar; Lundberg, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
No abstract.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818474
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International Cooperation on Innovation: Empirical Evidence for German and Portuguese Firms
Faria, Pedro; Schmidt, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
innovation activities. Portuguese and German data from the harmonised Community Innovation Survey (CIS III) allow us to compare … innovation cooperation behaviour of private firms in the two countries. Using a bivariate probit model, we show that the … cooperation, firm size and the importance of protection methods for knowledge have a positive influence in both countries on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098236