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Learning and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: Lessons from Austria's Postwar Pattern of Growth for Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1995

This paper looks at Austria's pattern of development and its lessons for Eastern Europe. Austria's development path is characterized by two features. In the post-war era Austria was among the countries with the fastest convergence rate. At the same time Austria's movement up the technological...

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Human Capital and Macroeconomic Growth: Austria and Germany 1960-1997. An Update

Marin, Dalia; Koman, Reinhard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

In an influential paper Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) argue that the evidence on the international disparity in levels of per capita income and rates of growth is consistent with a standard Solow model, once it has been augmented to include human capital as an accumulable factor. In a study on...

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Economic Returns to Speaking the Right Language(s)? Evidence from Kazakhstan's Shift in State Language and Language of Instruction

Aldashev, Alisher; Danzer, Alexander M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from Russian to Kazakh. Using two newly assembled data sets, we...

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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation

Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

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Product versus Process: Innovation Strategies of Multi-Product Firms

Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product … differentiation. In a simple model of multi-product firms, we show that returns to product versus process innovation are industry …-specific. Demand and cost linkages induce a natural distinction between the returns to product and process innovation. In highly …

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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data

Hansen, Thorsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a …

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What Explains the Rise in CEO Pay in Germany? A Panel Data Analysis for 1977-2009

Fabbri, Francesca; Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The compensation of executive board members in Germany has become a highly controversial topic since Vodafone's hostile takeover of Mannesmann in 2000 and it is again in the spotlight since the outbreak of the financial crisis of 2009. Based on unique panel data evidence of the 500 largest firms...

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The Opening Up of Eastern Europe at 20-Jobs, Skills, and ‘Reverse Maquiladoras’ in Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement leads to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with unique firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring countries...

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Alfred D. Chandlers Konzept der learning base und seine Anwendung auf den Unterhaltungselektronikhersteller Loewe

Steiner, Kilian J. L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The aim pursued in this business history study is to assess whether LOEWE - an originally German-Jewish producer of consumer electronics - had the possibility as well as the capacity to build and preserve a learning base throughout the national-socialist period. Learning base is understood here...

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'A Nation of Poets and Thinkers' - Less So with Eastern Enlargement? Austria and Germany

Marin, Dalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

Many people in the European Union fear that Eastern Enlargement will lead to major job losses. More recently, these fears about job losses have extended to high skill labor and IT jobs. The paper examines with new firm level data whether these fears are justified for the two neighboring...

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