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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene - 2001
the input factors and workplace reorganization. The estimation results show that changes in human resources practices do … observable firm heterogeneity are larger if workplace reorganization is realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation … realized. We therefore apply Kernel density estimation technique to demonstrate that the entire labor productivity distribution …
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Fremdvergabe von IT-Dienstleistungen aus personalwirtschaftlicher Sicht
Henkel, Joachim - 2002
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Quantification of qualitative data using ordered probit models with an application to a business survey in the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2000
This paper aims at providing business survey analysts with simple econometric tools to quantify qualitative survey data. We extend the traditional and commonly applied method proposed by Carlson and Parkin (1975) to capture observable survey respondent heterogeneity. We also discuss...
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Do business-related services really lag behind manufacturing industries in the business cycle?
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
In an a priori view, it is usually assumed that the business cycle of manufacturing industries leads the business cycle of the service sector. This seems to be even more plausible for the relationship between business-related services, whose high growth rates in recent years were largely due to...
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Measuring knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services: an empirical assesssment of alternative approaches
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1999
In this paper it is tested which of the various alternative approaches for constructing knowledge spillover pools suggested in existing literature measures the extent to which a firm can costlessly receive external knowlegde best. Since knowledge spillovers are unmeasurable, a 'goodness of fit'...
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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-level data
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
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Research cooperation and research expenditures with endogenous absorptive capacity : theory and microeconometric evidence for the German service sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
This paper derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...
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Tarifverträge und Beschäftigungspolitik in Dienstleistungsunternehmen
Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000
Der Beitrag untersucht die Verbreitung von Tarifverträgen in Dienstleistungsunternehmen sowie deren Wirkungen auf die Beschäftigungspolitik im Falle von Nachfrageschwankungen. Der empirische Teil basiert auf der ZEW/Creditreform Konjunkturumfrage bei unternehmensnahen...
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