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How creative are you? An experimental study on self-selection in a competitive incentive scheme for creative performance

Bradler, Christiane - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

Economic theory suggests that performance pay may serve as an effective screening device to attract productive agents. The existing evidence on the self-selection of agents is largely limited to job tasks where performance is driven by routine, well-defined procedures. This study presents...

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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

The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...

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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment

Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012

We analyse the effects of specific measures for older employees (SMOE) on employment duration of workers aged 40 and above. Using longitudinal employer-employee data for German establishments, we account for worker and establishment heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a...

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...

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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm?s proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm?s IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...

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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? Evidence from two natural experiments

Ammermüller, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas; Boockmann, Bernhard; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany. Using a natural experiment, our first set of estimates is based on a legal change extending the group of eligible unemployed persons. A subsequent legal change in the opposite...

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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data

Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...

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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...

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Poland on the dole: unemployment benefits, training, and long-term unemployment during transition

Puhani, Patrick A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1996

We analyse the duration of unemployment spells in Poland using data from the Polish Labour Force Survey of August 1994. The effects on the duration of unemployment of important socio-economic and demographic characteristics are explored besides the impacts of the unemployment benefit system and...

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Management Control and Innovative Activity

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Kraft, Kornelius - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

This paper discusses theoretically the different incentives of managers versus firm owners to invest in innovative … managerled firms, expenditures on R&D depend on the control exerted. If capital shares are widely dispersed and managers are thus … only controlled a little by owners, they invest more into R&D. Owner-led firms and managers who are strongly controlled …

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