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Creative Disruption : Technology Innovation, Labour Demand and the Pandemic
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2022
We utilize a new survey on Norwegian firms' digitalization and technology investments, linked to population-wide register data, to show that the pandemic massively disrupted the technology investment plans of firms, not only postponing investments, but also introducing new technologies. More...
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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital
Fassio, Claudio - 2015
The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013577
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Creative Unemployment
Roed, Knut - 2010
We examine the impact of job loss on entrepreneurship behavior in Norway. Our identification strategy relies on the use of mass layoffs caused by bankruptcies as indicators of exogenous displacement. We find that working in a company which is going to close down due to bankruptcy during the next...
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Creativity and the Family Tree : Human Capital Endowments and the Propensity of Entrepreneurs to Patent
Link, Albert - 2011
relationship follows from established theories of developmental creativity, and our empirical analysis is based on survey data …
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055234
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Creative Differences? Measuring Creative Economy Employment in the Us and UK Using Microdata
Kemeny, Tom - 2018
Using high-quality administrative microdata spanning 2011-2013, this paper develops new routines to compare creative economies using the creative trident framework, and applies them to the UK and US national and regional contexts. We find the UK creative economy is larger in workforce shares,...
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HRM Practices and Performance of Family-Run Workplaces : Evidence from the 2004 WERS
Siebert, Stanley - 2011
This paper analyses HRM practices of family-run workplaces using the 2004 WERS. Family-ownership and management within workplaces in the corporate sector is our focus. This family-run group represents nationally about 26% of workplaces and 14% of employment. We find that employees in this group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121548
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Employment Policies, Hiring Practices and Firm Performance
Blasco, Sylvie - 2012
In this paper we investigate how active labour market policy programmes affect firms' hiring strategies and, eventually, firms' performance. We focus on counseling and monitoring which may reduce search costs for employers, but which may have ambiguous effect on the employer-employee matching...
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Management of Knowledge Workers
Hvide, Hans K. - 2012
We study how firm-specific complementary assets and intellectual property rights affect the management of knowledge workers. The main results show when a firm will wish to sue workers that leave with innovative ideas, and the effects of complementary assets on wages and on worker initiative. We...
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Incentive Pay and Performance : Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm
Bogaard, Hein - 2013
We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern HRM policies in an emerging market context. We have branch-level data and use our knowledge of the process that led to the adoption of the reforms to implement two estimators...
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