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The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

wage premium has been driven mainly by institutional factors during the early period and by productivity and technological … productivity. …

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...

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Language and Labor Market Success

Isphording, Ingo E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

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Chinese Unions and Enterprises Performance

Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

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Effects of Training on Employee Suggestions and Promotions in an Internal Labor Market

Pfeifer, Christian; Janssen, Simon; Yang, Philip; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …

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