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Innovation and the Determinants of Firm Survival

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Jensen, Paul H.; Webster, Elizabeth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Innovation and SMEs Patent Propensity in Korea

Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …

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Real Wages and the Business Cycle in Germany

Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper establishes stylized facts about the cyclicality of real consumer wages and real producer wages in Germany …

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Collective Bargaining and Innovation in Germany: Cooperative Industrial Relations?

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino; Evers, Katalin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … representative data for Germany – for many observers the exemplar of a cooperative industrial relations regime – to investigate the … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and …

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Unemployment Transitions to Stable and Unstable Jobs Before and During the Crisis

Nagore García, Amparo; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using administrative records data from Spanish Social Security, we analyse the pattern and the determinants of individual unemployment benefit spell durations. We compare a period of expansion (2005-2007) and the recent recession (2009-2011), allowing us to determine the impact of the current...

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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Newborn Health and the Business Cycle: Is It Good to Be Born in Bad Times?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Gonzalez, Libertad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effect of the cycle on the health of newborn babies using 30 years of birth-certificate data for Spain. We find that babies are born healthier when the local unemployment rate is high. Although fertility is lower during recessions, the effect on health is not the result of...

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Good Skills in Bad Times: Cyclical Skill Mismatch and the Long-Term Effects of Graduating in a Recession

Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We show that cyclical skill mismatch, defined as mismatch between the skills supplied by college graduates and skills demanded by hiring industries, is an important mechanism behind persistent career loss from graduating in recessions. Using Norwegian data, we find a strong countercyclical...

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Business Cycles, Unemployment and Entrepreneurial Entry: Evidence from Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander S.; Pijnenburg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

what extent business cycles or unemployment levels influence entries into entrepreneurship. Our analysis for Germany …

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