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IT, Organizational Change and Wages
Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003
organizational changes in form of higher wages. Outsourcing additionally requires a high qualification of employees in order to …
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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised box-cox function
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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What drives the vacancy rate for information technology workers?
Falk, Martin - 2001
training. Finally, in the non-ICT sector, the common practice of completely outsourcing software programming significantly … Deutschland. Datengrundlage ist eine repräsentative telefongestützte (CATI) Umfrage von 4150 Unternehmen für das Jahr 2000. Die …
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Does IT Outsourcing Increase Firm Success? An Empirical Assessment using Firm-Level Data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2007
estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … approach takes possible complementarities between IT outsourcing and production input factors into account and further allows … IT outsourcing to affect any factor of the production function. Estimation results show that IT outsourcing firms produce …
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Gains and Pains from Contract Research: A Transaction and Firm-level Perspective
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph - 2008
outsourcing of R&D activities to contract research organizations and its implications for innovation performance. This paper … theory and the resource-based view of the firm. Using a large and comprehensive data set of innovating firms from Germany our …
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Fremdvergabe von IT-Dienstleistungen aus personalwirtschaftlicher Sicht
Henkel, Joachim; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2002
systematischen Überblick über bestehende theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zum Thema IT-Outsourcing und legt dabei einen … Beleg für strategische Komplementarität zwischen verschiedenen Outsourcing-Entscheidungen interpretieren. …This paper analyzes those aspects of IT outsourcing decisions that are related to personnel economics. It offers a …
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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing: a firm-level investigation based on panel data
Ohnemus, Jörg - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive … communication technologies. Outsourcing firms can concentrate on their core competencies. Additionally, they benefit from the …
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External technology supply and client-side innovation
Peukert, Christian - 2011
literature. Some authors find beneficial effects of IT outsourcing, others underline that firms often fail to achieve expected … support the theoretical arguments and suggest a positive linear relationship between the level of outsourcing and process …
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What Determines the ZEW Indicator?
Hüfner, Felix P.; Lahl, David - 2003
This paper analyzes which factors are driving the ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment. Using the results of a poll among survey participants as well as Granger causality tests we identify three groups of influence factors: other sentiment indicators, financial variables and real economy data. In...
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Auswirkungen von Erbschaften und Schenkungen auf die Vermögensbildung privater Personen und Haushalte: Eine ökonometrische Analyse auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels
Westerheide, Peter - 2004
Die Untersuchung analysiert das Sparverhalten der über 30- bis unter 50jährigen Personen bzw. Haushalte mit Haushaltsvorständen in dieser Altersgruppe in Reaktion auf erhaltene Erbschaften bzw. Transfers zu Lebzeiten. Zugrunde liegen aktuelle Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels. Mittels...
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