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The adoption of new technologies and the age structure of the workforce
Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
This paper provides firm-level evidence for the relationship between the age structure of the workforce and the adoption of new or significantly improved technologies in service sector firms. Furthermore, it closes a research gap by analyzing the joint impact of the age of the workforce and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728572
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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Goebel, Christian - 2012
heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a positive effect of mixed-aged team work on employment duration and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009657522
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Workers into managers - developing leadership competence of production unit managers
Rappe, Christoph (contributor); Zwick, Thomas (contributor) - 2005
This study analyses the competence gaps of lower-level managers in a typical manufacturing plant in Germany that had …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002591064
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Online but still divided : inequality in private internet use in Germany
Coneus, Katja; Schleife, Katrin - 2010
internet use in Germany. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use the exact weekly duration of internet use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003979123
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Peer effects and academics’ industry involvement : the moderating role of age on professional imprinting
Aschhoff, Birgit; Grimpe, Christoph - 2012
This study explores the interaction between professional imprinting and age in the context of industry-science collaboration. Specifically, we examine the impact of localized and personal peer effects on academics’ involvement with industry and how these effects are moderated by the career age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009509666
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2015 - This version: March 3, 2015
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529456
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Peer effects in collaborative content generation : the evidence from German Wikipedia
Slivko, Olga - 2014
On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles’ talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467845
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Identifying effekt heterogeneity to improve the effeciency of job creation schemes in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Hujer, Reinhard (contributor) - 2005
Previous empirical studies of job creation schemes in Germany have shown that the average effects for the participating … West Germany who benefit from participation in terms of higher employment rates. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002822067
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Matching of individuals for start-ups : test of the O-ring theory
Müller, Bettina (contributor) - 2008
In this paper I analyse how individuals match for for the purpose of setting up a new firm. As a theoretical basis I use the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to new firms by Fabel (2004). The O-ring theory predicts that individuals segregate between firms according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793876
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Ability matching and survival of start-ups
Müller, Bettina - 2009
In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team …, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to … whole population of Danish firms founded in 1998, I find that the average ability level in a team and the team size have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871339