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The State of University Policy for Progress in Europe
Hoareau, Cécile; Ritzen, Jo; Marconi, Gabriele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
higher education performance in education, research and economic innovation, using non-arbitrary weights and eighteen policy …Higher education contributes to economic innovation. This study measures and compares the extent to which national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884401
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
Chiswick, Barry R.; Larsen, Nicholas; Pieper, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
have no effect for U.S. females or in Canada. Government expenditures on research and development enhanced PhD production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764583
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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research
Borghans, Lex; Cörvers, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565210
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The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change
Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822075
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822664
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Robots at Work
Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214029
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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt
Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Die Zukunft der Arbeit wird vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt. Daraus entwickelt sich in Fortschreibung jüngerer Entwicklungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit erheblichen Unterschieden der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255261
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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands
Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003945
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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity
Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change and the increase in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010697235
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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723562