In der aktuellen Debatte um eine grundlegende Reform des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland stehen Ansätze zur Reduzierung der Lohnkostenbelastung der Unternehmen im Vordergrund. Diskutiert werden insbesondere der Umbau des Sozialversicherungssystems und die Deregulierung des Arbeitsmarktes....

We use a newly developed data set of 39,343 high-value patents granted between 1877 and 1918 to demonstrate that technological progress during German industrialization occurred in at least four different technological waves. We distinguish the railway wave (187786), the dye wave (188796), the...

In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...

In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...