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Network Embeddedness, Geographical Co-location or Both? The Impact of Distinct and Combined Proximity Effects on Firm-level Innovation Output in the German Laser Industry

Muhamed Kudic, Peter Bönisch, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa
Industry and Innovation, 2010
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Human Capital Mobility and Regional Convergence

Lutz Schneider, Alexander Kubis
Regional Studies, 2012
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Regions as Selection Environments? The Emergence of the Solar Industry in Germany from 1992 to 2008

Matthias Brachert, Christoph Hornych, Peter Franz
European Planning Studies, Nr. 11, 2013
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The spatial evolution of the German solar industry is analysed in the light of the “window of locational opportunity” and the “selection environment” approach. The paper argues that differences in the regions' ability to promote the emergence of local external economies contribute to increasing regional differentiation in the German structure of the industry. Applied empirical methods enclose longitudinal firm entry and network analysis. A special focus is given upon the realignment processes in the science system. Our findings show a relatively rapid spatial concentration of production in eastern Germany since the year 2000. This process is accompanied by intensified networking between firms and between firms and universities as well as research institutes. The responsiveness of regional institutions and the self-organizing capabilities of the solar firms substantiate some propositions of the “selection environment” approach.
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Women Move Differently: Job Separations and Gender

Boris Hirsch, Claus Schnabel
Journal of Labor Research, Nr. 4, 2012
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Using a large German linked employer–employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and workplace characteristics and unobserved plant heterogeneity. These differences vanish once we allow these characteristics to affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men, suggesting an interplay of gender differences in transition behaviour and the gender pay gap.
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Regional Determinants of MNE’s Location Choice in Post-transition Economies

Andrea Gauselmann, Philipp Marek
Empirica, Nr. 4, 2012
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This article focuses on the impact of agglomeration and labour market factors on the location choice of MNEs in post-transition economies. We compare data from 33 regions in East Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland using a mixed logit model on a sample of 4,343 subsidiaries for the time period between 2000 and 2010. The results show that agglomeration advantages, such as sectoral specialization as well as a region’s economic and technological performance prove to be some of the most important pull factors for FDI in post-transition regions.
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Heterogeneous FDI in Transition Economies – A Novel Approach to Assess the Developmental Impact of Backward Linkages

Axèle Giroud, Björn Jindra, Philipp Marek
World Development, Nr. 11, 2012
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Traditional models of technology transfer via FDI rely upon technology gap and absorptive capacity arguments to explain host economies’ potential to benefit from technological spillovers. This paper emphasizes foreign affiliates’ technological heterogeneity. We apply a novel approach differentiating extent and intensity of backward linkages between foreign affiliates and local suppliers. We use survey data on 809 foreign affiliates in five transition economies. Our evidence shows that foreign affiliates’ technological capability, embeddedness and autonomy are positively related to knowledge transfer via backward linkages. In contrast to what is widely assumed, we find a non-linear relationship between extent of local sourcing and knowledge transfer to domestic suppliers.
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Schwedens Politik zur Gewährleistung der Daseinsvorsorge am Beispiel Jämtlands

Franziska Jungermann
Europa Regional, Nr. -1, 2012
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Die nordschwedische Provinz Jämtland zählt zu den am dünnsten besiedelten Regionen Europas und ist aufgrund ihrer ländlich‐peripheren Prägung und einer dispersen Siedlungsstruktur in besonderer Weise gefordert, adäquate Daseinsvorsorgeangebote aufrechtzuerhalten. Im Rahmen einer empirischen Studie wurden die Kinder‐ und Altenbetreuung sowie die Erwachsenenbildung exemplarisch in der Provinz Jämtland dahingehend analysiert, wie die Angebote in diesen Bereichen organisiert sind, wie sich der demografische Wandel auf das Angebot auswirkt und ob Anpassungsprozesse zu beobachten sind. Es zeigte sich, dass es zwar ein deutliches Bewusstsein für die mit dem demografischen Wandel verbundenen Probleme seitens der lokalen Akteure gibt, dass bisher jedoch noch nicht von expliziten Anpassungsprozessen gesprochen werden kann.
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Works Councils and Establishment Productivity

Steffen Müller
ILR Review, Nr. 4, 2012
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Declining union density in many industrialized countries increases interest in alternative forms of employee representation, such as works councils. The German works council is one of the most powerful forms of worker representation in developed countries, but little is known of its causal effect on productivity. The author used a large linked employer-employee panel data set to examine this issue. Comparing firms with and without a works council, the author finds that establishments with a works council are on average 6.4% more productive; but he also presents evidence that this figure underestimates the true productivity effect of works councils.
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The Productivity Effect of Temporary Agency Work: Evidence from German Panel Data

Boris Hirsch, Steffen Müller
The Economic Journal, Nr. 562, 2012
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This study investigates the effect of temporary agency work on the user firm’s productivity. We hypothesise that using temporary agency work to enhance numerical flexibility and to screen job candidates may increase productivity, whereas temporary workers’ lower firm-specific human capital and spillover effects on the user’s permanent employees may adversely affect productivity. Other than the sparse existing literature on this issue, we exploit a large panel data set and control for time-invariant and time-varying unobserved heterogeneity by using the system GMM estimator. We find a robust hump-shaped effect of the extent of temporary agency work on the user firm’s productivity.
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Veblen's Predator and the Great Crisis

John B. Hall, Iciar Dominguez Lacasa, Jutta Günther
Journal of Economic Issues, Nr. 2, 2012
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With this inquiry we attribute cause for the current and “Great Crisis“ to Veblen's predator. After summarizing origins and manifestations of this crisis we juxtapose Veblen's emphasis upon the predator to other potential causes for crisis and crises. Noted to have emerged when our stock of human knowledge provided for the creation of surplus, Veblen's predator is presented as capable of metamorphosis and also driving evolution of our capitalistic system: whether this means emerging as the businessman in the “era of the machine,“ or the investment banker promoting a financial metaphysics in the current “era of finance.“
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