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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 … and factor price changes. Furthermore, we find that organizational change has a positive impact on expected employment for …
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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. …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on both the magnitude and determinants of unfilled positions for information technology workers using cross-sectional data on 4150 German firms. Vacancies are defined as unfilled positions excluding those created by replacement needs during the first half...
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In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are … investigated: the substitutability of inputs; the own-price sensitivity for different types of labour; the effect of economic … growth and the impact of technological change. In general, the shift of demand away from unskilled labour can be explained by …
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-skilled workers. The relationship between IT investment and medium-skilled labour is rather weak while the unskilled labourshare is …
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This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information …
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employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … university graduates than product innovations alone. Labour quality and turnover growth are also important factors of employment … decision in the labour demand equations. The system of probit equations is estimated using simulated ML based on 800 West …
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. Furthermore, both shortrun and long-run labour demands of different skill classes are inelastic. Unskilled labour is found to have … a somewhat higher wage elasticity in absolute terms than medium-skilled labour. A small part of shift in demand away … from unskilled labour can be explained by the substitutability relationship between intermediate materials and unskilled …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand … output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …
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