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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data
Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017
ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient...
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Formal and strategic appropriability strategies of multinational firms : a cross country comparison
Faria, Pedro (contributor); Sofka, Wolfgang (contributor) - 2008
these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic … of discussion among academics and practitioners. Most research in this field focuses on knowledge sharing activities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003721781
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What old stagers could teach us : examining age complementarities in regional innovation systems
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - 2014
Concerns have been raised that demographic ageing may weaken the competitiveness of knowledge-based economies and … Germany using a flexible knowledge production function and accounting for potential endogeneity of the regional workforce … presence of older workers as younger and older workers turn out to be complements in the production of knowledge. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010384982
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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services : an empirical assessment of alternative approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit' measure is constructed using innovation survey data. It turns out …In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools … that measures of the uncentered correlation of firm characteristics seem to fit actual knowledge spillovers best. Direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443497
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Poaching and firm-sponsored training : first clean evidence
Mohrenweiser, Jens; Zwick, Thomas; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2013
A series of seminal theoretical papers argues that poaching of employees may hamper company-sponsored general training. However, the extent of poaching, its determinants and consequences, remains an open empirical question. We provide a novel empirical identification strategy for poaching and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009751718
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Training and individual performance in Europe : evidence from microeconometric studies
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2000
Learning at school and university and also at the work place has become more important in the knowledge-based economy …
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
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...
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Comparing the part-time wage gap in Germany and the Netherlands
Wolf, Elke - 2001
In this paper, I contrast the quality of part-time jobs - in terms of hourly wage rates - with those of full-timers. Using the Netherlands as a benchmark, helps to assess the size and seriousness of the estimated wage differentials in Germany. Based on two comparable household surveys, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445955
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016
A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514667
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Are intangibles more productive in ICT-intensive industries? : evidence from EU countries
Chen, Wen; Niebel, Thomas; Saam, Marianne - 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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