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Openness and Technological Innovationsin Developing Countries:Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are importantchannels for the transfer of technology...

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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

States during the 1990s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with … investments inorganizational innovation... …

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...

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The Polish Wage Inequality Explosion

Newell, Andrew; Socha, Mieczysław W. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper presents and analyses the sharp increase in hourly wage inequality after 1998 inPoland. The increase was similar in magnitude to the much-studied increase in British wageinequality during the 1980s. Using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey, we find thisincrease to be associated...

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Earnings-Tenure Profiles:Tests of Agency and Human Capital TheoriesUsing Individual Performance Data

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Jones, Derek C.; Kato, Takao - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of workerperformance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several relateddimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles...

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Innovation, Employment and Skills inAdvanced and Developing Countries:A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative andqualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatorypower of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on theissue, with reference...

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R&D Drivers in Young Innovative Companies

García-Quevedo, José; Pellegrino, Gabriele; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

autoregressive nature of innovation. Using a large longitudinal datasetcomprising Spanish manufacturing firms over the period 1990 … the case of the YICs, suggesting that their innovation behaviour is less persistentand more erratic. Moreover, our results … suggest that firm and market characteristics play adistinct role in boosting the innovation activity of firms of different age …

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Betriebsratspraxis bei Innovation.Beispiele und Erfahrungen aus der Metallindustrie in der Region Hannover

Stracke, Stefan; Witte, Heinz H - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2006

Innovation, um die Unternehmen stärker zur systematischen Qualifizierung aller Beschäftigten und zu Innovationen bei Produkten …

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Ansätze zur Messung von Unternehmenskultur - Möglichkeiten, Einordnungen und Konsequenzen für ein neues Instrument

Nerdinger, Friedemann W. - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2007

Im BMBF-geförderten Projekt TiM - Transfer innovativer Unternehmens Milieus - wird untersucht, wie sich Unternehmen angesichts vielfältiger Herausforderungen am Markt behaupten, an neue Gegebenheiten anpassen und Innovationen hervorbringen können. Die zentrale These des Projekts besagt, dass...

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Innovation, Participation and Corporate Culture.A European Perspective.

Kluge, Norbert; Kollewe, Kathleen; Wilke, Peter - Universität <Rostock> / Lehrstuhl für Wirtschafts- … - 2007

The challenges faced by businesses in Europe are determined by the increasing amount of competition in global commodity markets and also changing conditions in employment markets. Much more efficient information and communication technology (IT and internet), decreasing importance of...

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