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This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment …. However, the estimated impact of computer use on the change in employment status of older workers becomes insignificant when …
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employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous …, the estimated impact of computer use on the change in employment status of older workers becomes insignificant when …
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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...
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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...
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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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In this paper the impact of working hours on the gross hourly wage rate of West German women is analyzed. We use a simultaneous wage-hours model which takes into account the participation decision. First, our estimates show that the hourly wage rate is strongly affected by the working hours. In...
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It is often noted that employment rates of females have been rising during the last decades. However, in contrast to … formation. In addition, employment rates may differ across skill groups and countries due to differences in incentives to work …-time and part-time employment of different skill groups of women in the UK and West Germany. The analysis is based on large …
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Discontinuities in the employment profile are supposed to cause wage cuts since they imply an interruption in the …-time employment spells. Estimation results for German women suggest that deviations from full-time employment are associated with …
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years in employment. The comparison with the wage structure in the Netherlands, which exhibits much smaller wage …, especially the more experienced ones, in taking a part-time employment. …
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For the first time data of German ICT and knowledge intensive service providers are used to analyze the relation between the age structure of the workforce and the probability of adopting new technologies. The results show that firms with a higher share of younger employees are more likely to...
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