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, using a new and large employer survey on wage and price setting behaviour for Germany. We observe that wage freezes are more …
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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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service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firmlevel employment effects of innovations using specific … regarding process innovations were found. Finally, from a cross country perspective the results for Germany are similar to those …
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sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the … increasing in the firms' share of employees with Internet access in the manufacturing sector. E-commerce-intensive firms are more … the importance of the Internet for global trade and they confirm the productivity advantage of importing in comparison to …
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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...
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly...
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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 derives a three stage Cournot duopoly game for research collaboration, research expenditures and product market competition. The amount of knowledge firms can absorb from other firms is made dependent on their own research efforts, e.g., firms' absorptive capacity is treated as an...
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