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Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...
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member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the marginal impact of ICT capital is higher when it is complemented with …
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Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young … relatively low ICT-related skills; and for young men in routine manual occupations, who experienced substitutions by robots …
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negative impact of ICT and innovative work practices. However, it does not reduce the age bias associated with these innovative … devices: the interaction terms between training and ICT/innovative work practices are either insignificant or negative. As a … second step, we estimate the impact of ICT, innovative work practices and training on employment flows by age group in the …
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Following the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT), firms are likely to face increasing skill … requirements. They may react either by training or hiring the new skills, or by a combination of both. We first show that ICT are … that skill upgrading following ICT adoption takes place mostly through internal labour markets adjustments. The …
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This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authors match an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu) with institutional...
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This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firmメs expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT … experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line in the resume, we assess the returns to ICT skills. For that, we submit … cities. We estimate a binary choice model to identify differences in callbacks depending on ICT skills. We also analyze how …
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This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
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