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An Information Economics Perspective on Main Bank Relationships and Firm R&D
Hoewer, Daniel - 2011
more than 7,000 firm observations in Germany over a multi-year period. Our theoretical predictions are only supported for …
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
effect. Also, the effect of immigration on support for redistribution has not been studied for Germany - Europe's largest …
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Spatial Model Selection and Spatial Knowledge Spillovers : A Regional View of Germany
Klarl, Torben - 2010
Knowledge and technological change are often assumed to be the driving forces for long run economic growth. Regions with a higher level of knowledge compared to other regions exhibit a higher per-capita income on average. Agglomeration effects can lead to a steady increase of income and widen...
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Innovative Capability and Financing Constraints for Innovation More Money, More Innovation?
Hottenrott, Hanna; Peters, Bettina - 2012
Economic theory suggests that financing constraints may occur due to capital market imperfections. These particularly affect investments in innovation projects as such projects are typically characterized by a high degree of uncertainty, complexity and specificity. Financing innovation...
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Productivity Effects of Business Process Outsourcing - A Firm-Level Investigation Based on Panel Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...
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Oil and Unemployment in Germany
Löschel, Andreas; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - 2009
In this paper, we analyze oil price impacts on unemployment for Germany. Firstly, we survey theoretical and empirical … framework of a vector autoregression (VAR) approach for Germany. For this purpose, we use three different specifications in … restricted sample period for post-unification Germany, we oppose claims that the oil to macroeconomy relationship has weakened …
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Educational Effects of Early or Later Secondary School Tracking in Germany
Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2018
This paper examines educational outcomes of pupils selected to secondary school types by different tracking regimes in a German state: Pupils are alternatively streamed after fourth grade or after sixth grade. Regression results indicate that, estimated on the mean, there are no negative effects...
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Heterogeneous Returns to Training an Analysis with German Data Using Local Instrumental Variables
Kuckulenz, Anja - 2018
Empirical work on the wage impact of training has noted that unobserved heterogeneity of training participants should play a role. The expected return to training, which partly depends on unobservable characteristics, is likely to be a crucial criterion in the decision to take part in training...
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The Change of Sales Modes in International Markets - Empirical Results for German and British High-Tech Firms
Fryges, Helmut - 2015
-based firms in Germany and the UK, this paper applies logistic regressions and analyses empirically the probabilities of changing …
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How to Limit Discrimination? Analyzing the Effects of Innovative Workplace Practices on Intra-Firm Gender Wage Gaps Using Linked Employer-Employee Data
Wolf, Elke - 2014
This paper provides a new approach to assess the impact of organisational changes fostering employee involvement, performance related pay schemes and other relevant trends in personnel policy on the gender wage gap. Our results indicate that innovative human resource practices tend to limit the...
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