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The Impact of Highly-skilled ICT Labour on Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Six European Countries

Hagsten, Eva; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...

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Are ICT Displacing Workers? Evidence from Seven European Countries

Biagi, Federico; Pantea, Smaranda; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...

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Employment of ICT Specialists in the EU 2000-2012

Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This study examines the evolution of the number of ICT-skilled workers employed in industry sectors in the EU28 over the period 2000-2012. Data are taken from the Eurostat Labour Force Statistics. It introduces a novel definition of ICT specialists that combines occupations and skills...

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Innovationsverhalten der deutschen Wirtschaft

Aschhoff, Birgit; Doherr, Thorsten; Ebersberger, Bernd; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung <Mannheim>; … - 2006

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Macroeconomic Modelling of Public Expenditures on Research and Development in Information and Communication Technologies

Szewczyk, Wojciech; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2012

GDP. The high growth resulting from the ever-increasing pace of ICT-related innovation requires high levels of R&D to be … investments into economic growth and employment through innovation. This report aims to provide an overview of subjects and topics …: relationship between public and private R&D expenditure, innovation and the R&D process, and diffusion and impact of ICT. Further …

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The 2011 Report on R&D in ICT in the European Union.

Turlea, Geomina; Nepelski, Daniel; Prato, Giuditta De; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2011

This report provides an analysis of the state of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Research and Development activities in the European Union. This is the fourth report of a series which is published annually. This year’s report provides data up to 2008. The report starts with a...

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ICT-induced Technological Progress and Employment: a Happy Marriage or a Dangerous Liaison? A Literature Review

Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

While the EU economy is struggling with the joint consequences of the 2008-2009 recession and the sovereign-debt crisis, the theoretical and policy debate largely revolves around the role ICT play in the structural dynamics of the labour markets. However, despite a wealth of theoretical...

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Macroeconomic Modelling of Public Expenditures on Research and Development in Information and Communication Technologies

Szewczyk, Wojciech; Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

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ICT-induced Technological Progress and Employment: A Literature Review

Sabadash, Anna - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution theory - dominate the current economic debate. The first assumes that the labour-saving impact of technological progress is counterbalanced by various compensation mechanisms....

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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

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