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Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation and training employer characteristics

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship graduates constitute a large share of unemployed youth in Germany but unemployment incidence within this group is...

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Poaching and firm-sponsored training: First clean evidence

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...

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Vocational Training and Gender: Wages and Occupational Mobility among young Workers

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kunze, Astrid - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between the gender wage gap, the choice of training occupation, and occupational mobility. We use longitudinal data for young workers with apprenticeship training in West Germany. Workers make occupational career choices early during their careers and...

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge spillovers inherent in the introduction of ICT. The results show …

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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands

van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …

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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation …

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Employment Effects of Different Innovation Activities: Microeconometric Evidence

Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

Extending a recently developed multi-product model and distinguishing between different product and process innovation … activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure: econometric results from aggregated survey data

Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous … concentration. In contrast, competition enforces innovation, i.e. sales concentration has a negative impact on R&D. …

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