Information and communication technologies (ICTs) create potentials for considerable productivity gains and for higher economic growth. However, ICTs also pose varied challenges to firms in order to benefit from these potentials. Highlighting the importance of innovations, firm-sponsored...

Services from information technology to research to finance are now as subject to international trade as goods have been for decades. What are the labor market consequences of the recent surge in services offshoring? While offshoring has traditionally been found to affect only less-skilled...

Forschungsstand zum Wissenserwerb bei Studierenden -- Theoretische Modellierung des Erwerbs und der Veränderung des betriebswirtschaftlichen Wissens -- Empirische Studie und Testinstrumente zur Messung der Wissensveränderung -- Entwicklung eines Mehrebenenstrukturgleichungsansatzes für...

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of educational inequalities and their consequences on individual labor market outcomes for men and women in France and Germany, two countries with different education systems. Using microdata from the two countries, the analyses mainly rely on...

Economic globalisation and technological change are the two issues that concerned people in the past, concern them today and will concern them in the future - all over the world, poor or rich. Traditionally, questions about allocative effects are asked: What are the labour market implications?...

Empiriegeprägte Aktivitätsanalyse: Die DEA -- Bedeutung der Skalenvariablen bei Aktivitätsänderungen in der DEA -- Kreuzbewertung zur Aktivitätsplanung -- Anwendung ausgewählter Konzepte: Eine Theateranalyse.

und Problemstellung -- Begriffliche Grundlagen -- Theoretische und konzeptionelle Grundlagen -- Methodische Grundlagen und empirische Ergebnisse -- Implikationen für Wissenschaft und Praxis -- Zusammenfassung.

This book offers a comprehensive empirical analysis of continuing vocational training in Germany. Specific issues concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of training are analyzed, explicitly accounting for the...

The process of firms' growth - in terms of productivity or employment - is a major concern of policy makers. In this context, innovations are considered to play a crucial role in stimulating firms' performance. This book investigates this general hypothesis by looking at three topics: 1. Does...

This book provides an up-to-date summary of the consequences of demographic aging for labor markets, financial markets, economic growth, social security schemes and public finances in Germany, essentially reflecting the present state of knowledge in any of these areas. Compared to other...