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Creativity, Education or What? On the Measurement of Regional Human Capital

Bode, Eckhardt; Villar, Lucia Perez - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations rather than education. Consistent with Florida’s notion of creativity, it suggests a microfoundation that relates creativity to workers’ cognitive and...

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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies

Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper investigates the link between outsourcing and...

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Trust-based Work-time and Product Improvements: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Godart, Olivier N.; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of firms. Employing a panel data set of over 5,000 German establishments, we implement a propensity score matching approach where we only consider firms that did not use trust...

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Unionisation Structures and Heterogeneous Firms

Braun, Sebastian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies have, however, primarily focused on firm-level bargaining and on markets that are characterised by a small and fixed number of identical firms. This paper studies how different...

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Corruption and Productivity Firm-level Evidence from the BEEPS Survey

Rosa, Donato De; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked...

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Science parks, knowledge spillovers, and firms' innovative performance: evidence from Finland

Squicciarini, Mariagrazia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The paper focuses on the role of Science Parks (SPs) as seedbeds of innovation. It investigates whether and to what extent locating inside a science park relates to the innovative output of tenant firms. The simple assessment methodology proposed relies on count data models, uses patents as...

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Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China and the Role of Unequal Economic Development

Bickenbach, Frank; LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

Over the past decade the scale of higher education in China has expanded substantially. Regional development policies … inequality of higher education opportunities across provinces in China over the period of the scale expansion, taking different … with the policy orientation of reforming the higher education system and of promoting regional development in China over …

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Business incubators in China: an inquiry into the variables associated with incubatee success

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

using a small panel of science and technology business incubators (STBIs) in China. We find that while the number of firms …

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An inquiry into the development of science and technology parks in China

Zhang, Haiyang; Sonobe, Tetsushi - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

on high-tech firms within and outside the STIPs in China, while paying special attention to the issues related to …

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Firm Characteristics and Informal Governance of Business Operations in the PRD, China

Bickenbach, Frank; LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

. Theoretical considerations based on the New Institutional Economics suggest that, in a transition economy such as China, companies … (electronics industry) companies operating in the PRD, China. From this we obtain some, though often weak, evidence in favor of the …

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