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Are Jobs More Polarized in ICT Firms?
Bockerman, Petri - 2016
We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...
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Does ICT Investment Spur or Hamper Offshoring? Empirical Evidence from Microdata
Benfratello, Luigi - 2015
We provide evidence on the effect of ICT investment on the propensity to offshore for a sample of Italian manufacturing … firms. To deal with the endogeneity of ICT investment we adopt an innovative identification strategy based on the …
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How ICT Investment and Energy Use Influence the Productivity of Korean Industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2015
investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor … the allocation of public investment and support is limited.The results presented herein show that ICT/non-ICT capital … investment are substitutes for labor and energy use. We also find a high output growth rate in the sampled sectors, and …
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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas - 2008
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 observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and … outsourcing activities, the increased flow of direct foreign investment and its heterogeneous regional distribution, the increased …
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012
technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128
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Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika - 2013
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Information and Communication Technologies and Skill Upgrading : The Role of Internal vs. External Labour Markets
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
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 indeed skill biased and we then assess the...
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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation
Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011
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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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders
Winkler, Anne E. - 2012
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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