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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective

Hogrefe, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the taskbased approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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ICT and the demand for energy: Evidence from OECD countries

Rexhaeuser, Sascha; Schulte, Patrick; Welsch, Heinz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper analyzes the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and energy demand. We construct a comprehensive cross-country cross-industry panel data set covering 13 years, 10 OECD countries, and 27 industries. Using up to 2889 country-industry observations, we find...

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Price Indexes for PC Database Software and the Value of Code Compatibility

Harhoff, Dietmar; Moch, Dietmar - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

Changing product quality poses a challenge for the computation of price indexes, in particular in technologically advanced industries. We assess the differences between traditional and quality-corrected indexes by computing hedonic and matched-model price indexes for personal computer database...

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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...

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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

This study investigates productivity effects to firms introducing new environmental technologies. The literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can get higher productivity effects from adopting new technologies if complementary organisational changes...

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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology

Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...

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