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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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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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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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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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Do eco-innovations need specific regional characteristics? : an econometric analysis for Germany ; conference paper

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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Environmental innovation and employment dynamics in different technology fields : an analysis based on the German community innovation survey 2009

Horbach, Jens; Rennings, Klaus - 2012

The employment effects of environmental technologies are in the focus of politicians but there are only few studies analyzing these effects for different environmental innovation fields. We use the 2009 wave of the German part of the Community Innovation Panel (CIS) allowing for such an analysis...

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Determinants of labor shortage : with particular focus on the German environmental sector

Horbach, Jens - 2014

Despite the ongoing discussion on labor shortage in the German economy there is still a lack of empirical analyses of this problem based on adequate econometric methods. The paper explores the determinants of labor shortage in the environmental sector supplying products and services that help to...

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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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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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Climate change affectedness and innovation in German firms

Horbach, Jens; Rammer, Christian - 2022

Eco-innovations are crucial for the mitigation of climate change effects. It is therefore important to know if the existing climate change regulations and carbon pricing are appropriate and sufficient to trigger such innovations. Besides government measures, the demand for carbon neutral...

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