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Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms may react to increasing skill requirements either by training or hiring the new skills, or a combination of the two.Using matched datasets with about 1,000 French plants, we assess the relative importance of these...
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We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document …, and we find that it tends to reduce transitions to non-employment among high-school dropouts. Overall, the evidence goes …
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employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
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Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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employment of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, our empirical analysis confirms that new … layers is favourable to older workers. Training contributes to protect older workers in terms of employment and/or of wages …
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employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share … and innovative work practices negatively affects the wage bill share of older workers. In contrast, training older workers … more than average increases their share in the wage bill in the next period. So, training contributes to offset the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854771