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Intangible investment and technical efficiency : the case of software-intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey
Findik, Derya; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
This chapter analyzes the effect of intangible investment on firm efficiency with an emphasis on its software component … technical efficiency in the software intensive manufacturing firms in Turkey for the period 2003-2007. Firms are classified … differentials in their firm efficiency. The results show that the effect of software investment on firm efficiency is larger in high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309152
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Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations? : evidence from Chilean firms
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Viollaz, Mariana - 2017
on the use of routine tasks by middle-educated workers, this study focuses on a measure of complex software that is … instrumental variables estimates show that in the medium run, firms' adoption of complex software affects firms' employment … decisions and the skill content of occupations. The adoption of complex software reallocates employment from skilled workers to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732039
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Technology and education : computers, software, and the internet
Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2015
A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This chapter explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348286
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Wage determination and the sources of bargaining power
Manzini, Paola; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper explores the sources of bargaining power in wage negotiations. In the standard analyses of wage bargaining, the negotiation partners are specified a priori, and thus it is impossible to address the question of how they achieve and retain their negotiating positions, on which their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412236
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Ten facts you need to know about hiring
Mühlemann, Samuel; Strupler Leiser, Mirjam - 2015
We provide new empirical evidence regarding the magnitude and the determinants of a firm's costs required to fill a vacancy. The average costs required to fill a vacancy for a skilled worker in Switzerland amount to about 16 weeks of wage payments. The main components of the vacancy costs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346605
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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers
Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
Large international differences in the price of labor can be sustained by differences between workers, or by natural and policy barriers to worker mobility. We use migrant selection theory and evidence to place lower bounds on the ad valorem equivalent of labor mobility barriers to the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454010
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Moral-hazard-free first-best unemployment insurance
Parsons, Donald O. - 2016
cost) distortions need arise in first-best insurance plans. Their counterexample depends on the functional form of the …
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Optimal data collection for randomized control trials
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Wilhelm, Daniel - 2016
In a randomized control trial, the precision of an average treatment effect estimator can be improved either by collecting data on additional individuals, or by collecting additional covariates that predict the outcome variable. We propose the use of pre-experimental data such as a census, or a...
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The effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection
Butschek, Sebastian; Sauermann, Jan - 2019
To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms' worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden's workforce. Our difference-in-differences analysis of firms' hiring uses individual ability measures including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012003627
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Taxing childcare : effects on childcare choices, family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2017
Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664517