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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle …

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Skilled immigration, task allocation and the innovation of firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activity …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …

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Innovations, wages and demand for heterogeneous labour : new evidence from a matched employer-employee data-set

Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...

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The division of labor and the market for organizations

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...

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Between the dockyard and the deep blue sea: retention and personnel economics in the Royal Navy

Glaser, Darrell J.; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2021

This paper tackles some issues in personnel economics using the career profiles of British naval officers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We ask how promotions, payouts, positions, and peers affect worker retention. Random variation in task assignments and job promotions allows us...

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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AI adoption and workplace training

Mühlemann, Samuel - 2024

This paper investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in production processes on workplace training practices, using firm-level data from the BIBB establishment panel on training and competence development (2019-2021). The findings reveal that AI adoption reduces the...

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Why has science become an old man's game?

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Gaulé, Patrick; Hrendash, Taras - 2023

We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...

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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that views early industrialization as a predominantly...

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The new wave? : the role of human capital and STEM skills in technology adoption in the UK

Draca, Mirko; Nathan, Max; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; … - 2024

Which types of human capital influence the adoption of advanced technologies? We study the skill-biased adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) across two waves in the UK. Specifically, we compare the "new wave" of cloud and machine learning / AI technologies during the...

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