1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-32 // 2001

    Productivity Effects of Organizational Change: Microeconometric Evidence

    This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technology (ICT),non –ICT –investment,labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 01-27 // 2001

    Rejecting Capital-Skill Complementarity at all Costs

    Any serious empirical study of factor substitutability has to allow the data to display complementarity as well as substitutability. The standard approach reflecting this idea is a translog specification –…

  3. ZEW Documentation No. 01-02 // 2001

    Educational Attainment: A French-German Comparison

    This documentation analyses the structure of educational attainment in France and Germany. While France and Germany share in many respects similar socio-economic structures, they sharply differ with respect to…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2001

    Empirical macro models under test. A comparative simulation study of the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in social security contributions

    This paper examined the employment effects of a revenue neutral cut in the social security contribution rate in Germany by running policy simulations in four different types of macroeconomic models. Two models…

  5. ZEW-Wirtschaftsanalysen Contribution to Edited Volume Vol. 57 // 2001

    Zustand und Perspektiven osteuropäischer Aktienmärkte

  6. ZEW Economic Studies Vol. 14 // 2001

    Lead Markets

    This book suggests a new approach for explaining the international diffusion of innovations. Based on this new theory an applicable concept of new innovation market entry is presented. The Lead Market Concept…

  7. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2001

    Assessing the Costs of Compliance: The Kyoto Protocol