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This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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This paper analyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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Between 1993 and 1995, the majority of German firms in services introduced new organizational practices (OC), in particular total quality management systems, certified ISO 9000, lean administration, flatter hierarchies, delegation of authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper...
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This paper analyzes the link between the diffusion of information- and communication technology (ICT) and both the skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data for 4150 German firms conducted in mid-2000. The...
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This paper analyzes the impact of office machinery and computer capital (OCM) on the demand for heterogeneous labor. A system of static and dynamic factor demand equations based on a variant of the generalized Box-Cox cost function nesting the translog, the generalized Leontief and the...
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This paper analyses the growth effects of EU structural funds using a new panel dataset of 124 NUTS-1 / NUTS-2 regions …
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The current empirical literature on the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on the economic growth rates of the European … assumptions, this paper applies the method of generalized propensity score (GPS) to a sample of 122 NUTS-1 and NUTS-2 EU-15 …
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The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective … by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about … the channels through which this policy field works. Using a dataset of 27 EU countries for the time period 1982-2006, we …
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. Its main purpose is to promote the development of the EU and to support convergence between the levels of development of … and provide some remarks for future research. -- Economic integration ; regional growth ; EU Cohesion Policy ; panel data …
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