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Trade and technology : new evidence on the productivity sorting of firms

Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - 2013

technology adoption thus seem to better fit the manufacturing sector. …

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Combining technology and work organization : an analysis of complementarity between IT and decentralization across firms of different size

Rasel, Fabienne - 2014

This paper examines whether information technology (IT) and decentralized work organization are complementary only for large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339

Innovation and information technology in services

Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997

sector. Using data from a survey of innovative activities in services we show that investment in information technology (IT …, data of the German IT survey point towards the need to differentiate between types of IT investment. It is shown that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440920

The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services : evidence from firm level panel data

Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 2000 - Revised January 2000

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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Endogenous firm heterogeneity, ICT and R&D incentives

Cequera, Daniel (contributor); Klein, Gordon J. (contributor) - 2008

Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth within industries. This paper empirically demonstrates that ICT has a robust impact on firm heterogeneity only when ICT is used intensively and jointly with specific ICT...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794022

ICT, consulting and innovative capabilities

Cerquera, Daniel (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of the decision to contract ICT consulting on firms' innovative incentives. The paper develops a theoretical model and estimates some of its implications for a sample of German firms. In particular, the paper estimates the average treatment effect of the decision...

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Do older workers lower IT-enabled productivity? : firm-level evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene (contributor); Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 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...

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Open source, ICT infrastructure and firm performance

Cerquera, Daniel; Müller, Bettina - 2009

This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity … and innovative behavior. Using a representative sample of German firms, the results show that the adoption of OSS … operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no impact on firm level labor productivity, while the adoption of …

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IT outsourcing and employment growth at the firm level

Ohnemus, Jörg - 2010

Outsourcing is widely associated with accompanied job losses in the outsourcing firm, at least in the short run. However, the medium and long run effects of outsourcing on employment growth might still be positive. This paper particularly focuses on IT outsourcing and its medium-term effects on...

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IT training and employability of older workers

Schleife, Katrin (contributor) - 2008

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 …

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