Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241098

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

Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. Except for low …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035179

Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China

Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071740

(Lack of) Pension Knowledge

Barrett, Alan - 2013

Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076158

Measuring Knowledge

Heckman, James J.; Zhou, Jin - 2022

Empirical studies in the economics of education, the measurement of skill gaps across demographic groups, and the impacts of interventions on skill formation rely on psychometrically validated test scores that record the proportion of items correctly answered. Test scores are sometimes taken as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083722

How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978960

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134985

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120137

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,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912232

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last