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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

. -- multinational firms ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; offshoring ; vertical FDI …

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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412907

Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); … - 2008

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741920

A retrospective look at rescuing and restructuring General Motors and Chrysler

Goolsbee, Austan; Krueger, Alan B. - 2015

This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....

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Structural and exchange components in processes of neighbourhood change : a social mobility approach

Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2017

Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by multiple macro- and micro-level processes. Most theoretical and empirical work has focused on the role of urban-level processes, such as filtering, life-cycle, and social dynamics. For individual neighbourhoods, these...

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Skill biased technological and organizational change : estimating a mixed simultaneous equation model using the IAB establishment panel

Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002

Recent years have brought growing evidence for an increasing labour demand for high skilled and a deterioration of the labour position of less skilled employees. The two most common explanations for this finding are an increasing international trade and a skill biased technological change....

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Learning efficiency of economics students

Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K. - 1998

Using a stochastic frontier approach this paper evaluates the effects of substantial changes in the teaching material on students learning efficiency. The results indicate that the main effects of the re-organization on the learning efficiency was a decreasing importance of students' attendance...

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Flexible work organization and employer provided training : evidence from German linked employer-employee data

Campaner, Annika; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2018

We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. Using unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, we confirm that employees are more likely to receive training when...

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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe

Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014

This paper investigates the dynamics of the distribution of unconditional and conditional - on technology - wages in Europe, using both industry and individual level data for the period 1995-2007. We find that the unconditional wage distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On...

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Offshoring and skill-biased technical change in the context of US protectionism

Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019

We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational … skills. We carry out a comparative statics analysis and show that offshoring leads to a restructuring of the economy through … skill-biased technical change (SBTC) where overall welfare is improved. In a policy exercise we show that, if offshoring …

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