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Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - 2009

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data from 1971-1976 and 1981-1990 on 148 firms are used to compare the number of patents granted to...

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Co-determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius; Stank, Jörg; Dewenter, Ralf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...

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The Value of Hiring through Referrals

Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - 2013

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Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation

Lichter, Andreas; Löffler, Max; Isphording, Ingo E.; … - 2021

We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …

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Filling the Gap: The Consequences of Collaborator Loss in Corporate R&D

Pöge, Felix; Gaessler, Fabian; Hoisl, Karin; Harhoff, … - 2022

We examine how collaborator loss affects knowledge workers in corporate R&D. We argue that such a loss affects the remaining collaborators not only by reducing their team-specific capital (as argued in the prior literature) but also by increasing their bargaining power over the employer, who is...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Unraveling the Role of Public Researcher Mobility for Industrial Innovation

Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper investigates how physical, organisational, institutional, cognitive, social, and ethnic proximities between inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper systematically explores the net effects of all...

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