ZEW Discussion Papers

Overview

Researchers at the ZEW participate in scientific debates by publishing their papers. The papers are predominantly in English (marked). For the German papers an English abstract is available. The contributions are intended for a final publication in special interest titles. The discussion papers can be downloaded as PDF or PostScript files starting from 1.1.1998. They aimed at national and international target groups.

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-22 // 2005

    Knowledge Flows and R&D Co-operation: Firm-level Evidence from Germany

    This paper analyzes the determinants of R&D co-operation among German manufacturing firms. Using firm level data from the Third Community Innovation Survey from Germany, we focus on the role of spillovers in…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-21 // 2005

    Identifying Effect Heterogeneity to Improve the Effiency of Job Creation Schemes in Germany?

    Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average e®ects for the participating individuals are negative. However, we find that this is not true for all strata of the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-20 // 2005

    Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany

    In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-19 // 2005

    Impure Public Goods and Technological Interdependencies

    Impure public goods represent an important group of goods. Almost every public good exerts not only effects which are public to all but also effects which are private to the producer of this good. What is…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-18 // 2005

    Poor Background or Low Returns? Why Immigrant Students in Germany Perform so Poorly in PISA

    Student performance of Germans and immigrants differed greatly in the 2000 PISA study. This paper analyses why the two groups of students performed so differently by estimating educational production…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-17 // 2005

    Educational Attainment and Returns to Education in Germany

    This paper presents evidence on the development of educational attainment and its returns on the labor market in Germany in the time period 1985-2002. Returns to education are estimated using Mincer equations.…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-16 // 2005

    Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts

    This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-15 // 2005

    Rent-sharing: Does the Bargaining Regime Make a Difference? Theory and Empirical Evidence

    This paper analyses whether wages in Germany respond to firm-specific profitability conditions. Particular emphasis lies on the question of whether the extent of rent-sharing varies across different systems of…

  9. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-13 // 2005

    Workers into Managers – Developing Leadership Competence of Production Unit Managers

    This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had recently introduced a teamwork structure. Results indicate that the managers have…

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