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This paper investigates the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce in a sample of French manufacturing firms. We find evidence that the wage-bill share of older workers is lower in innovative firms and that the opposite holds...
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only be a set of techniques. In relation with management science and management education, should it then be enough (or not …) to formalize and to teach these techniques? This argumentation will try to show that the concept of technology is …
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Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. Some of this experience on foresight analysis is also been transferred to other …
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explain the relationship between the objective and concrete features of technology and the subjective and shifting nature of … the people and organisation within which that technology is deployed. At the cultural and linguistic level the paper will …
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This paper is about the alignment of technology and modes of organization in infrastructures in the context of their … determine the alignment between organization and technology and should be taken explicitly into account when reforming …
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Technology has been playing a central role in defense spending or arms-producing countries since World War II. Although … well as public R&D. This technology-centric paradigm results from uncertainties surrounding defense matters and the need to … launching new programs, hence a high level of defense R&D. This explains both an overinvestment in technology, resulting in the …
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We review the theoretical and empirical economic literature upon income inequality in emerging countries. We firstly describe the main observed de velopments and show that these are rather diverse across countries and developing regions. We subsequently expose the main theoretical mechanisms. We...
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Should education become more vocational or more general? We address this question in two steps. We first build and … education type vehicles three main externalities: specialists boost job creation in each sector; generalists improve the … efficiency of the matching technology; generalists exacerbate firms' coordination problems. We then calibrate the model on the …
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paper look what is the experience and education of bosses and workers participating the first generation of private owned …
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This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in …
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