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IT outsourcing in Finnish business
Maliranta, Mika; Rouvinen, Petri; Airaksinen, Aarno - 2008
This paper reviews the characteristics and magnitude of information technology (IT) outsourcing as well as studies its labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on average from one-third to two-thirds of IT has been...
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Advancing information technology and financial intermediation
Mannonen, Pekka - 2001
The whole financial sector has been under a remarkable structural change, and one of the major contributing forces has been the rapid advance in information processing based on digital technology. The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of advancing information and transaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284915
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Patient cost sharing: Reforms without evidence. Theoretical considerations and empirical findings from industrialized countries
Holst, Jens - 2010
transforms patients into rational utility maximisers consuming services beyond their needs thereby causing welfare losses to … vorliegende Arbeit wertet die umfangreiche Literatur über Ansätze und Versuche der Kostenbeteiligung von Patienten aus, die in den … Versicherten bzw. Patienten bisher fehlen und die üblicherweise angeführte Empirie für den Nachweis ungeeignet ist …
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Instrumental calculation, cognitive role-playing, or both? Self-perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission
Murdoch, Zuzana; Geys, Benny - 2011
empirical analysis employs a unique dataset from a 2011 survey of all 1098 currently active Seconded National Experts (SNEs) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307692
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Experiments on matching markets: A survey
Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea - 2019
-sided matching markets such as college admissions. The main focus of the survey is on truth-telling and strategic manipulations by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012008250
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Evaluating national innovation systems: Key insights from the Finnish innoeval survey
Kotiranta, Annu; Nikulainen, Tuomo; Tahvanainen, Antti-Jussi - 2009
This paper aims to provide new insights into the analysis of National Innovation Systems (NIS). Whereas the common approach is to analyze specific parts or a defined set of actors and their interactions, this paper attempts to take a more systemic approach by analyzing results of 13 surveys...
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Comparing Agentic Meritocratic Citizenship in Europe and China: A Research Note
Soysal, Yasemin; Cebolla Boado, Héctor - 2023
Since the 1990s, global cultural shifts driven by neoliberalism have ushered in significant changes in the institutions of citizenship. This has given rise to an increasingly agentic conception of the individual, with strong meritocratic ideological underpinnings, as manifested across a wide...
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Ethnische Diversität, soziales Vertrauen und Zivilengagement: Projektbericht
Koopmans, Ruud; Dunkel, Anna; Schaeffer, Merlin; Veit, … - 2011
unterschiedliche methodische Ansätze miteinander verbunden: Im Rahmen der Umfragestudie Ethnic Diversity and Collective Action Survey … complementary methodological approaches. First, the Ethnic Diversity and Collective Action Survey (EDCAS) across local populations … diversity effects. Finally, survey, online and field experiments with local residents were conducted to investigate the causal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308714
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Temporary work agencies and equilibrium unemployment
Neugart, Michael; Storrie, Donald - 2002
During the 1990s, temporary agency work has increased rapidly in most OECD countries. We augment the equilibrium unemployment model developed by Pissarides and Mortensen with temporary work agencies. Our model implies that technological improvements for placements and de-regulation of the sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303983
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Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien: Beschäftigung, Arbeitsformen und Umweltschutz
Witt, Frank H.; Zydorek, Christoph - 2000
The production and adoption of information and communication technologies is only one of other factors that presently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306713