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      <title>Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovation and public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121299</link>
      <description>Title: Regional co-evolution of firm population, innovation and public research? Evidence from the West German laser industry
Authors: Blankenberg, Ann-Kathrin; Buenstorf, Guido
Abstract: We explore the regional co-evolution of firm population size, private-sector patenting and public research in the empirical context of German laser research and manufacturing over more than 40 years from the emergence of the industry to the mid-2000s. Our qualitative as well as quantitative evidence is suggestive of a co-evolutionary process of mutual interdependence rather than a unidirectional effect of public research on private-sector activities.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Market failure vs. system failure as a rationale for economic policy? A critique from an evolutionary perspective</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/145976</link>
      <description>Title: Market failure vs. system failure as a rationale for economic policy? A critique from an evolutionary perspective
Authors: Schmidt, Peter
Abstract: This paper reconsiders the explanation of economic policy from an evolutionary economics perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the dominant evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian perceptions. Based on this comparison, the paper criticises the fact that neoclassical failure reasoning still prevails in non-equilibrium evolutionary economics when economic policy issues are examined. This is more than surprising, since proponents of evolutionary economics usually view their approach as incompatible with its neoclassical counterpart. In addition, it is shown that this "fallacy of failure thinking" even finds its continuation in the alternative concept of "system failure" with which some evolutionary economists try to explain and legitimate policy interventions in local, regional or national innovation systems. The paper argues that in order to prevent the otherwise fruitful and more realistic evolutionary approach from undermining its own criticism of neoclassical economics and to create a consistent as well as objective evolutionary policy framework, it is necessary to eliminate the equilibrium spirit. Finally, the paper delivers an alternative evolutionary explanation of economic policy which is able to overcome the theory-immanent contradiction of the hitherto evolutionary view on this subject.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>"... Do it with joy!" - Subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121301</link>
      <description>Title: "... Do it with joy!" - Subjective well-being outcomes of working in non-profit organizations
Authors: Binder, Martin
Abstract: Working in non-profit organizations has been shown to be good for individuals' satisfaction with their jobs despite lower incomes. This paper explores the impact of nonprofit work on life satisfaction more general for the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and finds a significant positive impact the size about more than a fourth of that of getting widowed. This effect is quite uniform across the subjective well-being distribution, and thus exists also for those who are already happy. Shadow prices peg this effect at around 22.000 GBP p.a., nearly the average amount of equivalent net household income in the sample analyzed (which is roughly 27.000 GBP p.a.). The positive effect can be explained by third sector workers enjoying their day-to-day activities more, being more happy (affectively) and feeling that they are playing a useful role in their lives.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John: The impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being</title>
      <link>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121300</link>
      <description>Title: Revisiting cheerful Jane and miserable John: The impact of income, good health, social contacts and education declines with increasing subjective well-being
Authors: Binder, Martin
Abstract: This short note seeks to replicate the quantile regression analysis in Binder and Coad (2011), but taking into account individual-specific fixed effects (using the BHPS data set). It finds declining effects of the four main variables of interest (health, social life, income, education) over the quantiles of the subjective well-being distribution, with attenuated effect sizes for the fixed-effects model. Equivalized log income has a negative impact on subjective well-being throughout the distribution. Apart from a number of robustness checks, existing research is extended by looking into the quantile effects of the above variables on a set of domain satisfactions.</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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