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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297531
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Jirjahn, Uwe; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097593
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Do Spillovers Stimulate Incremental or Drastic Product Innovations? Hypotheses and Evidence from German Establishment Data
Kraft, Kornelius; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2014
We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive impact on incremental innovations. This impact is largely independent of the participation in R&D cooperations. Spillovers exert no such independent influence on drastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027138
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Selective Schools
Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper studies how schooling admission tests affect economic performance in an economy where individuals are endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple model with selective government held schools, where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822094
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Are the More Educated Receiving More Training? Evidence from Thailand
Ariga, Kenn; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off … education and off the job training. We also find that education and training are technical complements, especially in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822498
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … we consider the entire history of behaviors. We use an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of education and … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385763
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Does School Tracking Affect Equality of Opportunity? New International Evidence
Checchi, Daniele; Brunello, Giorgio - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006
attainment and earnings by arguing that the signalling role of formal education – captured by attainment – matters more than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324470
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?
Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical … approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this … approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12 European countries and has information on education, health and health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278192
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When the cat is near, the mice won't play: the effect of external examiners in Italian schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner has both a direct and an indirect negative effect on the performance of monitored classes in standardized educational tests. The direct effect is the difference in the test performance between classes of the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746204
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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814463