Similar Search Results

Managerial spans, industry tasks and ICT: evidence from the U.S.

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The knowledge theoretic view of organization of production postulates that ICT, tasks and hierarchies intertwine … utilization narrows organizations yet CT expands middle management. Second, industry tasks govern organizational outcomes …. Cognitive tasks flatten and technical/physical tasks narrow hierarchies. Third, the descriptive evidence suggests that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114354

Novas Formas de Organização do Trabalho nas Micro e Pequenas Empresas

Santos, Miguel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The implementation of new forms of organization of the work (NFWO) has been recurrently applied in the medium and large corporations, especially those whose activity is centered in traditional industrial sectors. With virtues and inconvenients the NFWO seems to be apparently to be kept out of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009397196

Growth accounting by decomposition: a modified NIRS approach

Shin, Inyong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This paper points out the fallacy in the previous method of growth accounting by decomposition. Specically, it points out that the previous studies tend to measure the contribution of technical progress to economic growth to be too low and that of capital accumulation too high.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111524

Is inequality an unavoidable by-product of skill-biased technical change? No, not necessarily!

Hühne, Philipp - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper compares the evolution of wage inequality along three different skill groups (low-, middle- and high-skilled) across five industrialized countries (Finland, Germany, Italy, Korea and the US). Despite similar exposure to technological change, the countries exhibit significant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111676

Mechanization, task assignment, and inequality

Yuki, Kazuhiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Mechanization− the replacement by machines of humans engaged in production tasks− is a continuing process since the … Industrial Revolution. As a result, humans have shifted to tasks machines cannot perform efficiently. The general trend until … about the 1960s is the shift from manual tasks to analytical (cognitive) tasks, while, since the 1970s, because of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260319

A new unit labour cost changes decomposition Four pillars of cost competitiveness recovery

Peroni, Chiara; DiMaria, Charles Henri - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity, which, in turn, is decomposed into efficiency gains, technical progress and capital deepening. Data for Western European countries and the US show that the evolution of labour...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112471

Technical change in a combined Classical - Evolutionary multi-sector economy: Causes, Effects and implications for economic and social policy

Rainer, A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The causes and effects of technical change are investigated in a multi-sector economy. The underlying modelling framework is a hybrid of Classical economic thinking as introduced by Ricardo (1821) and formalised by Sraffa(1960), and of Evolutionary economics following Schumpeter (1934)and Nelson...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112748

Heterogeneous labor demand: sectoral elasticity and trade effects in the U.S., Germany and Sweden.

Judzik, Dario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper analyzes labor demand at the sector level in the U.S., Germany and Sweden in two ways: by providing new computations of the sector elasticity of labor demand, and by evaluating the employment effects of trade in manufactures, services, agriculture and fuel. The elasticity is computed...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204408

The Impact of Some Investment Functions in a Kaldorian Growth Model

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1974

This paper outlines a variant of Nicholas Kaldor's growth model. An important feature of this model is that it generates steady state growth and Harrod Neutrality of technical progress endogenously. The effect of various assumption on investment bevavior are studied.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897475

Allais-anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion in the calculus of optimal growth II: Pareto optimality and some economic interpretations

Mabrouk, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper studies the Pareto-optimality of the consensual optimum established in "Allais-anonymity as an alternative to the discounted-sum criterion I: consensual optimality" (Mabrouk 2006a). For that, a Pareto-optimality criterion is set up by the application of the generalized Karush, Kuhn...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025714