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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services : evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 2000 - Revised January 2000

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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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?

Falk, Martin - 2001

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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services

Falk, Martin - 2001

Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...

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Diffusion of information technology, internet use and the demand of heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2001

This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...

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The impact of office machinery and computer capital on the demand for heterogeneous labor

Falk, Martin - 2002

This paper analyzes the impact of office machinery and computer capital (OCM) on the demand for heterogeneous labor. A system of static and dynamic factor demand equations based on a variant of the generalized Box-Cox cost function nesting the translog, the generalized Leontief and the...

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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999

This paper analyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...

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Background paper for "Technology and knowledge for economic growth and employment in Europe"

Handler, Heinz; Cameron, Gavin F.; Falk, Martin; Falk, Rahel - In: Growth and employment through innovation. 2005

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What does Europe pay for clean energy? : Review of macroeconomic simulation studies

Dannenberg, Astrid (contributor); Mennel, Tim (contributor); … - 2007

This paper analyses the macroeconomic costs of environmental regulation in European energy markets on the basis of existing macroeconomic simulation studies. The analysis comprises the European emssion trading scheme, energy taxes, measures in the transport sector, and the promotion of renewable...

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Hot air for sale : a quantitative assessment of Russia's near-term climate policy options

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

Since January 1st the European Union has launched an EU-internal emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) for emission …-intensive installations as the central pillar to comply with the Kyoto Protocol. The EU ETS may be linked at some time to a Kyoto emissions … into account potential linkages between the Kyoto emissions market and the EU ETS. We find that Russia may have incentives …

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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse … emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and quantitative terms within a partial equilibrium framework for the EU …. It turns out that those firms within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) which at the same time are subject to …

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