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IT and management in America
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340181
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Minimum wages and on-the-job training
Acemoglu, Daron (contributor);  … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001723428
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Human resources in the adjustment process
Amadeo, Edward J.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Camargo, … - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011976968
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428334
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428211
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The Impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428283
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Law enforcement and criminality : Europe vs. USA
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 1999
We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-off between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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Rising wage inequality and postgraduate education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009298199
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene - 2001
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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What's spurious, what's real? : measuring the productivity impacts of ICT at the firm-level
Hempell, Thomas - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428491