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How ICT investment and energy use influence the productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Lee, Jongsu; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited. The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …
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Does ICT investment spur or hamper offshoring? : empirical evidence from microdata
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano; Sembenelli, … - 2015
We provide evidence on the effect of ICT investment on the propensity to offshore for a sample of Italian manufacturing … firms. To deal with the endogeneity of ICT investment we adopt an innovative identification strategy based on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308488
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Return of the Solow paradox? : IT, productivity, and employment in US manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010236437
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The rise and fall of Spanish unemployment : a chain reaction theory perspective
Karanassou, Marika (contributor); Sala, Hector (contributor) - 2008
The evolution of Spanish unemployment has been quite idiosyncratic. The full employment levels of the early seventies were followed by unemployment rates that were the highest within the OECD countries in the aftermath of the oil price shocks. While unemployment was extremely persistent in most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003759214
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Spanish regional unemployment revisited : the role of capital accumulation
Bande Ramudo, Roberto; Karanassou, Marika - 2010
This paper provides new evidence for the evolution of regional unemployment rates in Spain over the 1980-2000 period … techniques, we estimate a structural labour market model for each group and evaluate the unemployment contributions of investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003976885
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Do temporary contracts affect TFP? : evidence from Spanish manufacturing firms
Dolado, Juan J. (contributor); Stucchi, Rodolfo (contributor) - 2008
This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777934
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Outsourcing and technological change
Bartel, Ann; Lach, Saul; Sicherman, Nachum - 2009
We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm’s expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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The diffusion of pay for performance across occupations
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2010
In this paper the differences in the incidence of pay for performance plans between occupations in a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments are analyzed. Our results show that there are significant differences between occupations in the incidence of individual, group and firm or plant...
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Performance appraisal : dimensions and determinants
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2011
The determinants of the dimensions that shape a formal system of performance appraisal are studied in relation to a sample of Spanish manufacturing establishments. In particular, the factors that influence the measures used to evaluate performance, the person who carries out such appraisal and...
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"Make-or-buy" of peripheral services in manufacturing : evidence from Spanish plant-level data
Bayo-Moriones, Alberto; Galdón-Sánchez, José Enrique; … - 2013
Spain. In particular, survey respondents are asked how their contracting practices of peripheral services had changed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683002