Numerous papers show that organizational and ? in a lesser extent ? technical innovation lead to an increase of firms? demand of qualifications. This paper sheds some complementary empirical light to this question by assessing links between innovation and training. It uses an original set of...

To investigate the relationships between new technologies, innovative workplace practices and the age structure of the workforce we start from a classical labour-demand framework, assuming that the cost function is a restricted translog. Since we are interested in age effects, the only variable...