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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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On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Kosfeld, Reinhold; Dreger, Christian; Eckey, Hans-Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, the framework of the aggregated Beveridge curve is used to investigate the effectiveness of the job matching process using German regional labour market data. For a fixed matching technology, the Beveridge curve postulates a negative relationship between the unemployment rate and...

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When and How to Create a Job: The Survival of New Jobs in Austrian Firms

Böheim, René; Stiglbauer, Alfred; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

While the volatility of job creations has been studied extensively, the survival chances of new jobs are less researched. The question when and how to expand a firm is of importance, both from the firms and from a macro perspective. Adjustment cost theories and arguments about option values of...

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Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Immigrants have figured prominently in U.S. economic growth for decades, but the recent recession hit them hard. Immigrants’ labor market outcomes began deteriorating even before the recession was officially underway, largely as a result of the housing bust. An analysis of employment and...

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Economic Conditions at Birth, Birth Weight, Ability, and the Causal Path to Cardiovascular Mortality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Modin, Bitte - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze interaction effects of birth weight and the business cycle at birth on individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality later in life. In addition, we examine to what extent these long-run effects run by way of cognitive ability and education and to what extent those mitigate the long-run...

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Health and Health Behaviors during the Worst of Times: Evidence from the Great Recession

Tekin, Erdal; McClellan, Chandler; Minyard, Karen Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus of these studies has been on the relatively milder recessions of the late 20th century. In this paper, we examine if the previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health...

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