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Combining technology and work organization: An analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size
Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...
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Trade and technology: New evidence on the productivity sorting of firms
Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skillstructure. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097561
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IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2001
This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the first half...
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098152
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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646449
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Allocation of human capital and innovation at the frontier: Firm-level evidence on Germany and the Netherlands
Bartelsmann, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation … performance is higher in all industries, except for low-technology manufacturing, and in the Netherlands the innovation …
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