ZEW Discussion Papers

Research on management and organization science has identified inter-departmental innovation collaboration as a mechanism to facilitate corporate innovation performance. Inter-departmental collaboration…

Increased globalisation and competition caused more and more firms to relocate part of their R&D activities to foreign countries. This recent trend towards the internationalisation of R&D is motivated by…

Gregariousness is an important aspect of human life with significant implications for labour market outcomes. However, there is still a research gap on the relationship between gregariousness, interactive jobs…

In the short run, outsourcing is usually associated with the resulting job losses in the contract granting firm, since in-house staff is generally laid-off or transferred to the outsourcing provider. However,…

Free competition on markets is a major concern in competition policy. The cartelization of firms is a threat to free competition. One major instrument antitrust authorities have and use increasingly frequently…

Research conducted by university researchers for industry constitutes one of the main channels through which knowledge and technology are transferred from science to the private sector. Since the value of such…

The present study analyses the role that human capital in childhood plays for the duration of an unemployment spell in adolescence and early adulthood. It thus asks the question how early in life we can detect…

Germany’s 2005 welfare reform introduced two competing organizational systems for the administration and activation of welfare recipients. In the majority of the 439 German districts, a centralized organization…

This study sheds light on the return-to-job of female employees after first birth based on exceptional longitudinal data from personnel records of a large German company. Our empirical analysis investigates a…