This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …

skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data … both medium-skilled and unskilled workers. To account for censoring in the employment shares, the empirical analysis uses … employment expectations for workers with a university degree are positively related to the degree of ICT penetration. …

sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …

Hidden Champions (HCs) are small- and medium-sized global market leaders that repeatedly show superior innovation … transformation than non-HCs firms. To test this hypothesis, I use data from the Mannheim Innovation Panel. This allows me to identify …

This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering … beneficial product and service innovations create jobs in contrast to process innovations. Employment changes occur in the wake …

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … multivariate probit models. The empirical results suggest that OC has a positive effect on actual employment growth given output …

main reason for the decline in relative demand for low skilled labor. While most analyses focus on manufacturing industries …, this paper presents empirical evidence that technological skill bias is also present for business related services, an … increasingly important sector in the German economy. Cross-sectional data from an innovation survey and panel data from a quarterly …