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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763920
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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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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits
Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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Research and Teaching in Higher Education: Complements or Substitutes?
Epstein, Gil S.; Menis, Joseph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity: Evidence from Linked Panel Data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …
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