ZEW Discussion Papers

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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. 03-42 // 2003

    Changes in Union Membership Over Time: A Panel Analysis for West Germany

    Despite the apparent stability of the wage bargaining institutions in West Germany, aggregate union membership has been declining dramatically since the early 90's. However, aggregate gross membership numbers do…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-40 // 2003

    Knowledge Flows, R&D Spillovers and Innovation

    Knowledge flows within and across countries should be carriers of important learning spillovers. We use data on 1.5 million patents and 4.5 million citations to analyze knowledge flows across 147 subnational…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-39 // 2003

    Coagglomeration and Growth

    We study the coagglomeration of domestic plants and foreign multinationals and the impact of this on domestic plant growth using data for Irish manufacturing. To this end we make use of the index developed by…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-38 // 2003

    Spatial Externalities and Empirical Analysis: The Case of Italy

    In the last ten years the space issue, i.e. the study of the role played by space in economic phenomena, has attracted a lot of interest from many economic fields. The combination of increasing returns, market…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-37 // 2003

    Innovationsaktivitäten von kmU im verarbeitenden Gewerbe: Was zeichnet Imitatoren und originäre Innovatoren aus?

    This contribution is concerned with the spread of new products in small and medium-sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. Based on an empirical study it is analyzed according to which factors planned…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-34 // 2003

    Education and Unemployment: A French-German Comparison

    This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets.…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-33 // 2003

    Reforming Social Welfare as We Know It? A Microsimulation Study for Germany

    Social assistance and unemployment assistance, which provide means tested income support (social welfare) without pre-specified time limits, are viewed as one important reason for the persistently high level of…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 03-32 // 2003

    Family Tax Splitting: A Microsimulation of its Potential Labour Supply and Intra-household Welfare Effects in Germany

    This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families’ labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world…

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