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In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic growth and the impact of technological change. In...
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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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positive effect on firms? employment growth rate. …
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manufacturing occupations face net training costs during the apprenticeship period but gain by the long-term employment of its …
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entrepreneurial success, founders' human capital is an important determinant of firm's employment growth as well. This paper … investigates if the depreciation of a founder's academic knowledge affects a start-up's employment growth. The depreciation of … university until the start-up is founded on firm's employment growth. Using quantile regressions, human capital depreciation is …
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Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...
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Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … back-of-the-envelope calculation overestimates the effect of loosening hours constraints, because even in a very flexible … labor market there will exist hours restrictions for certain jobs and occupations. Therefore, I simulate Germans' working …
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konkurrierende Implikationen aus der Theorie der Grenzproduktivitätsentlohnung und der Suchtheorie abgeleitet und empirisch …
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This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to …
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innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …
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