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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
general equilibrium model, this paper shows that skilled insiders in the USA enjoy higher rents and increase the skilled wage … outsiders in the USA do not possess a powerful credible threat to improve their position. This is a consequence from higher … training and education costs in the USA for unskilled employees and unemployed. In Germany, the lower skill wage mark-up leads …
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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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Abschreibungsraten allgemeiner und beruflicher Ausbildungsinhalte
Ludwig, Volker (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002906035
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The effects of changes in the unemployment compensation system on the adoption of IT by older workers
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2005
Two main hypotheses can be found in literature on why elderly workers have a lower probability of using information technology than their younger peers: lower learning capabilities and reduced incentives to invest in human capital. I use law changes in the unemployment compensation system...
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Law enforcement and criminality : Europe vs. USA
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 1999
We use a stylized model to show that, if transfers to the poor are founded on a security argument, there is a negative trade-o¤ between law enforcement expenditures and criminality. In contrast, if transfers are based on altruism, the correlation between the same variables may appear positive....
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The returns to pencil use revisited
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2007
The increased diffusion of computers is one of the fundamental changes at workplaces in recent decades. While the majority of workers now spend a substantial fraction of their working day with a computer, research on the wage effect of computer use effectively came to a halt after DiNardo and...
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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...
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Productivity effects of organizational change : microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2003 - This version: October 2003
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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What's spurious, what's real? : Measuring the productivity impacts of ICT at the firm-level
Hempell, Thomas (contributor) - 2002
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Do computers call for training? : Firm level evidence on complementarities between ICT and human capital investments
Hempell, Thomas (contributor) - 2003
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