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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? Evidence from EU countries

Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Using sectoral intangible investment data we confirm that intangible capital is a significant determinant of labour productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across industries with varying degrees of ICT intensity....

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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...

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Why Do Firms Train Apprentices? The Net Cost Puzzle Reconsidered

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper investigates the short-term costs and benefits of apprenticeship training in Germany. It calls into question the popular stylised fact that apprenticeship training always leads to net costs during the apprenticeship period. We analyse the impact of the proportion of different...

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Good occupation - bad occupation? The quality of apprenticeship training

Goeggel, Kathrin; Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Small average wage effects of employer and/or occupation changes mask large differences between occupation groups and apprentices with different schooling back-grounds. Apprentices in commerce and trading occupations strongly profit from an employer change. Employer and occupation changers in...

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ICT and economic growth: Comparing developing, emerging and developed countries

Niebel, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This paper analyzes the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on economic growth in developing, emerging and developed countries. It is based on a sample of 59 countries for the period 1995 to 2010. Various panel data regressions confirm the positive relationship between ICT...

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Coaching disadvantaged young people: Evidence from firm level data

Mohrenweiser, Jens; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified school-leavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school leavers aiming for higher education. This paper investigates whether a programme that supports firms to train...

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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis

Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge spillovers inherent in the introduction of ICT. The results show …

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ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services: Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands

van der Wiel, Henry; van Leeuwen, George; Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …

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Does Experience Matter? Innovations and the Productivity of ICT in German Services

Hempell, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

In this paper, it is argued that ICT investment is closely linked with complementary innovations and most productive in firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM estimates for an extended production function framework...

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Do R&D subsidies matter? Evidence for the German service sector

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Fier, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001

innovative activities of German service firms. We investigate whether firms that receive public subsidies for innovation projects … innovative activities. The more grants a firm has received in the past, the more it invests in current innovation projects …

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