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Bell, David N.F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …

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Real Wage Cyclicality in Germany and the UK: New Results Using Panel Data

Peng, Fei; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …

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Arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahmen und ihre Evaluierung: eine Bestandsaufnahme

Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

and the large financial expenditures spent on measures of Active Labor Market Policy in Germany, relatively little is … argues that Germany lags clearly behind the current evaluation practice of other advanced economies, and in information about …

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Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Establishment of Science Parks in the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

New growth models consider the role of technology in production. The link between product flows and information flows in international trade suggests investment in information technology as a leading sector in the developing countries growth. Several studies establish relationships between...

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Immigrants, English Ability and the Digital Divide

Ono, Hiroshi; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This study examines the extent and causes of inequalities in information technology (IT) ownership and use between natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The results indicate that, during the period 1997-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to...

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

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