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general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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Two main hypotheses can be found in literature on why elderly workers have a lower probability of using information technology than their younger peers: lower learning capabilities and reduced incentives to invest in human capital. I use law changes in the unemployment compensation system...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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