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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
service sector in Germany, I can observe firms’ IT intensity in terms of enterprise software and computer use and whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416339
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446232
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Mobile information and communication technologies, flexible work organization and labor productivity : firm-level evidence
Viete, Steffen; Erdsiek, Daniel - 2015
Mobile information and communication technologies (ICT) have started to diffuse rapidly in the business sector. This study tests for the complementarity between the use of mobile ICT and organizational practices providing workplace flexibility. We hypothesize that mobile ICT can create value if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418742
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Substitution elasticities between capital, labour, material, electricity and fossil fuels in German producing and service sectors
Koschel, Henrike - 2000
In this paper, substitutional relationships between capital, labour, material, electricity, and fossil fuels in German … the Morishima elasticity of substitution, labour and capital are substitutes in all sectors. Labour is generally a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444715
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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 … output and capital growth are more important in explaining the demand for heterogeneous labour than substitution effects … between labour and non-labour inputs. Similarly, the increasing use of both imported materials and purchased services is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445002
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCSs) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCSs were heavily used in order to cushion this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011643433
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Innovation and information technology in services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440920
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443456
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
The shift of employment from lower to higher productive firms is an important driver for structural change and industry dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by product innovation may be offset by employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011563084
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Industrial change, stability of relative earnings, and substitution of unskilled labor in West-Germany
Steiner, Viktor; Mohr, Robert D. - 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/10011441629