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Rising work complexity but decreasing returns
Pikos, Anna Katharina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Work complexity can be an important factor contributing to the observed employment and wage developments. Using German data, we find that it increased substantially between 1986 and 2012. Work complexity was higher for high-educated employees in the past but differences have leveled out in 2012...
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Complex job design and layers of hierarchy
Russo, Giovanni; Houten, Gijs van - 2021
The main function of hierarchies is to coordinate activities within an organisation, but a hierarchical structure also provides work incentives, by offering the prospect of hierarchical mobility. An alternative way for organisations to motivate workers is through job design. In organisations...
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Skills, tasks, and complexity
Gersbach, Hans; Schmassmann, Samuel - 2019
We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
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Between agora and shopping mall
Falkinger, Josef (contributor) - 2008
provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure …
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market …-induced innovation increase by the IG Farben successors, which then spilled over to the wider chemical industry. …
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Trend-spotting in the housing market
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
I create a time series of weekly ratios of Google searches, in the US, on buying and selling in the Real Estate Category of Google Trends. I call this ratio the Google US Housing Market BUSE Index or simply the BUSE index. It expresses the number of "buy"-searches for each "sell"-search which,...
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Calling the Greek referendum on the nose with Google Trends
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
In a bold and risky political move the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras called for a referendum on June 27 2015 quitting ongoing negotiations with Greece's creditors in Brussels. The referendum framed as a yes or no question asked the Greek voters to decide whether or not they approve or...
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Predicting the Irish "gay marriage" referendum
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
On February 20 2015 Irish Premier Enda Kenny confirmed that a "yes-no" referendum on same sex marriage would be held on May 22 of the same year. A yes vote would legalise same sex marriage in Ireland. As the Irish premier put it, the vote was about "tolerance, respect and sensitivity". The...
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Predicting road conditions with internet search
Askitas, Nikos - 2015
Traffic jams are an important problem both on an individual and on a societal level and much research has been done on trying to explain their emergence. The mainstream approach to road traffic monitoring is based on crowdsourcing roaming GPS devices such as cars or cell phones. These systems...
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Structural change and innovation as exit strategies from the middle income trap
Vivarelli, Marco - 2014
and innovation, trying to map - using the taxonomies put forward by the innovation literature - the concrete ways through … involved into globalized markets where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international … technological transfer. Among the ways how a middle income country can foster domestic innovation and structural change in terms of …
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