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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2004
This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297386
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - 2005
This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298011
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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers
Schleife, Katrin - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm?s proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm?s IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298030
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298711
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010
The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...
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Which personnel measures are effective in increasing productivity of old workers?
Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2010
In this study, we investigate the effect of five specific human resource measures for old employees (SMOE) on their relative productivity. Despite the fact that SMOE are applied in the majority of establishments, this is the first representative study on the effectiveness of these measures. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302588
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Den Weizen von der Spreu trennen: Altersbezogene Personalpolitik und Innovationen auf der Betriebsebene
Frosch, Katharina; Göbel, Christian; Zwick, Thomas - 2011
@Dieser Beitrag untersucht die altersbezogene Personalpolitik deutscher Betriebe und deren Einfluss auf die … analysiert, ob die Innovationsleistung von Betrieben mit deren Personalpolitik zusammenhängt. Die Analyse von verknüpften …, dass eine jugendzentrierte Personalpolitik die Innovationsfähigkeit der Betriebe verbessert. …
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297769
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Are Skill Requirements in the Workplace Rising? Stylized Facts and Evidence on Skill-Biased Technological Change
Spitz, Alexandra - 2004
from manual and cognitive routine activities in West Germany between 1979 and 1999. These withinoccupational task changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297355
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IT Capital, Job Content and Educational Attainment
Spitz, Alexandra - 2003
Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the ?black box? surrounding the skill?biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298123