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Skill Biased Technological and Organizational Change: Estimating a Mixed Simultaneous Equation Model Using the IAB Establishment Panel
Hujer, Reinhard; Caliendo, Marco; Radić, Dubravko - 2002
paper analyses the interdependencies between labour demand for high and low skilled employees, innovation activities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276294
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The skill bias effect of technological and organisational change : evidence and policy implications
Piva, Mariacristina; Santarelli, Enrico; Vivarelli, Marco - 2003
Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last decades. However, recent papers have also introduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261639
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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?
Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - 2005
In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262638
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262680
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Technological and organizational changes, and labor flows: evidence on French establishments
Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2007
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267889
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Organizational redesign, information technologies and workplace productivity
Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2008
Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273853
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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Innovations, Wages and Demand for Heterogeneous Labour: New Evidence from a Matched Employer-Employee Data-Set
Bellmann, Lutz; Schank, Thorsten - 2000
This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data from the IAB-establishment panel survey and the files of the employment statistics register for the year 1995, input shares derived from a generalised Leontief cost function are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262337
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Banks and innovation: microeconometric evidence on Italian firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - 2006
set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990's. There is evidence that banking development affects … the probability of process innovation, particularly for small firms and for firms in high(er) tech sectors and in sectors … more dependent upon external finance. The evidence for product innovation is weaker. There is also some evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267494
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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs
Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007
innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …
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