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Innovation, Adoption, Ownership, and Productivity: Evidence from Ukraine
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Vakhitova, Hanna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
How do new and foreign firms achieve superior productivity? Do they conduct more and better R&D? Or do they distinguish … IT and less in R&D than initially state-owned firms. Productivity gains from R&D and non-technology investment are … investment. New firm productivity growth is a result of higher investment volume rather than investment efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555913
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model
Busch, Anne; Holst, Elke - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008802403
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Informal Employment Relationships and Labor Market Segmentation in Transition Economies: Evidence from Ukraine
Lehmann, Hartmut; Pignatti, Norberto - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
new rich panel data set from Ukraine, the Ukrainian LongitudinalMonitoring Survey (ULMS), enables us to provide some … empirical evidence on informalemployment in Ukraine and the validity of the three schools of thought in the literature onthe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071143
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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071141
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The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs, and Paid Employees
Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias J. M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
We assess the relevance of formal education for the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128857
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Employment Effects of a Sectoral Minimum Wage in Germany: Semi-Parametric Estimations from Cross-Sectional Data
Müller, Kai-Uwe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642570
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Businesswomen in Germany and Their Performance by Ethnicity: It Pays to Be Self-Employed
Constant, Amelie - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
In this paper I assert that the entrepreneurial spirit can also exist in salaried jobs. I study the determinants of wages and the labor market success of two kinds of entrepreneurial women in Germany - self-employed and salaried businesswomen - and investigate whether ethnicity is important in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068678
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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay?: Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068701
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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068750
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Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour in German Manufacturing: New Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002
This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, the single elements of the input-output-matrix are used to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069051