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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the adoption of new or significantly improved technologies in service sector firms. Furthermore, it closes a research gap by analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728572
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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a positive effect of mixed-aged team work on employment duration and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009657522
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The organizational design of high-tech startups and product innovation
Grimpe, Christoph; Murmann, Martin; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2017
We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups’ innovation performance. Additional hierarchical levels are often suspected to restrict innovative activities. However, founders’ capacities for information processing and resource allocation are usually strongly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011765013
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Workers into managers - developing leadership competence of production unit managers
Rappe, Christoph (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002591064
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Online but still divided : inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - 2010
internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979123
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Income comparisons among neighbours and life satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
' income divide the German nation. We find that the neighbourhood income effect for West Germany is negative (which is in line … social interactions between neighbours take place. In contrast, the coefficients on neighbourhood income in East Germany are … there is a divide between East and West Germany, but also that neighbours may not be a relevant comparison group in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825922
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A behaviouristic approach for measuring poverty : the decomposition approach ; empirical illustrations for Germany 1995-2009
Faik, Jürgen - 2011
In this paper an alternative approach with regard to poverty measurement is discussed: the so-called decomposition approach. This method differentiates between various social groups in the sense that for each group a separate poverty line is determined. E. g., household size might be a criterion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009154497
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Peer effects and academics’ industry involvement : the moderating role of age on professional imprinting
Aschhoff, Birgit; Grimpe, Christoph - 2012
This study explores the interaction between professional imprinting and age in the context of industry-science collaboration. Specifically, we examine the impact of localized and personal peer effects on academics’ involvement with industry and how these effects are moderated by the career age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509666
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2015 - This version: March 3, 2015
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529456
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2014
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467845