Showing 1 - 10 of 256
This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277105
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry … information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals … negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit from services offshoring in terms of higher real wages. Hence, offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277450
. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high … innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278432
. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high … innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246701
-to-the-world innovation is inherently risky and therefore may increase the probability of firm death. However, many existing studies … fail to distinguish between innovation investments and innovation capital. Using an unbalanced panel of over 290 … innovation and survival and find that current innovation investments increase the probability of death while innovation capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268043
This study proposes new family-centered measures of access to early care and education (ECE) services with respect to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873400
entries into small-scale industries, like knowledge intensive services, are mostly influenced by changes in the cyclical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873505
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277455
Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494295
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744766