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The impact of resource efficiency measures on performance in small and medium-sized enterprises

Horbach, Jens - 2016

about these effects is still limited. Positive performance effects may be based on cost savings stemming from the … analyzes the effects of environmentally active behavior on the performance of a firm. The analysis is based on the 2013 wave of … efficiency measures triggers the overall performance of the firm. A high selfperceived greenness of the firm and a high share of …

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Impacts of regulation on eco-innovation and job creation

Horbach, Jens - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

New environmental technologies (environmental/eco-innovations) are often regarded as potential job creators—in addition to their positive effects on the environment. Environmental regulation may induce innovations that are accompanied by positive growth and employment effects. Recent empirical...

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The role of innovation and agglomeration for employment growth in the environmental sector

Horbach, Jens; Janser, Markus - 2015

The environmental sector is supposed to yield a dual benefit: its goods and services are intended to help to tackle environmental challenges and its establishments should create new jobs. However, it is still unclear in empirical terms whether that really is the case. This paper investigates...

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The impact of innovation activities on employment in the environmental sector: Empirical results for Germany at the firm level

Horbach, Jens - 2008

Die Studie untersucht die Beschäftigungseffekte von umweltbezogenen Produktinnovationen auf Unternehmensebene. Die empirische Analyse basiert auf dem Betriebspanel des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (Nürnberg). Eine deskriptive Analyse zeigt, dass mehr als 50 Prozent der...

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End-of-Pipe or Cleaner Production? An Empirical Comparison of Environmental Innovation Decisions Across OECD Countries

Frondel, Manuel; Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - 2004

While both fundamental types of abatement measures mitigate the adverse environmental impacts of production, cleaner production technologies are frequently more advantageous than end-of-pipe technologies for environmental and economic reasons. This paper analyzes a variety of factors that might...

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Do eco-innovations need specific regional characteristics? An econometric analysis for Germany

Horbach, Jens - 2013

The theoretical and empirical innovation literature stresses the importance of regional fac-tors and locational conditions for location choice of firms and their innovation success. Innovation activities are not equally distributed in space because agglomeration effects and specific regional...

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Determinants of eco-innovations by type of environmental impact. The role of regulatory push/pull, technology push and market pull

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian; Rennings, Klaus - 2011

another important source for eco-innovations, particularly with regard to products with improved environmental performance and …

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Employment and performance effects of circular economy innovations

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2019

paper looks at the economic and social dimensions by investigating the performance and employment effects of CE innovations …). The performance effects of CE innovations measured by the financial standing of a firm and by turnover growth tend to be …

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Determinants of Environmental Innovation - New Evidence from German Panel Data Sources

Horbach, Jens - 2006

In most cases, empirical analyses of environmental innovations based on firm-level data relied on survey data for one point in time. These surveys, especially designed for the analysis of environmental innovations, are useful because they allow for the inclusion of many explanatory variables...

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The relevance of personal characteristics and gender diversity for (eco)-innovation activities at the firm-level: Results from a linked employer-employee database in Germany

Horbach, Jens; Jacob, Jojo - 2017

Up to now, the growing literature on the determinants of eco-innovation has not considered the influence of personal characteristics of the employees of a firm. The existing econometric analyses show much "noise" explaining the driving forces of ecoinnovation. The paper tries to open the "black...

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