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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297646
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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium: technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union
Franz, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999
At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097995
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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419929
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297589
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297986
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular its relation to the relatively rigid earnings structure. We find that the substitution elasticity between unskilled and skilled labor is rather low in most sectors of the economy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097880
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How do managers form their expectations about working from home? Survey experiments on the perception of productivity
Erdsiek, Daniel; Rost, Vincent - 2023
to offer WFH. We leverage two survey experiments among nearly 800 knowledge-intensive services firms in Germany to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313930
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Green innovations and organizational change: Making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309495
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Working from home during COVID-19 and beyond: Survey evidence from employers
Erdsiek, Daniel - 2021
Based on survey responses from more than 1,700 managers in Germany, this study elicits employers' perceptions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581585