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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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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees matter for the generation of market novelties by new ventures. Using data about German start-ups, we find that there are no complementarities between technical and business skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558130
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Technological innovations and the expected demand for skilled labour at the firm level
Falk, Martin - 1999
employment for different types of labour in manufacturing. The empirical model allows for endogeneity of the firm's innovation … decision in the labour demand equations. The system of probit equations is estimated using simulated ML based on 800 West … probabilities for homogeneous labour. Furthermore, as expected, technological innovations have the strongest impact on university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443464
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
labour market policy. A further shift from end-of-pipe technologies to cleaner production, especially towards product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
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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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Employment changes in environmentally innovative firms
Rennings, Klaus; Ziegler, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
not counteract labour market policy. In contrast to this, end-of-pipe eco-innovations increase the risk of destroying jobs … employment more frequently. -- Innovation ; labour demand ; discrete choice models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001651170
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016
A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514667
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IT capital, job content and educational attainment
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003
Based on a large data set containing information on occupations between 1979 and 1999, this study explores the "black … box" surrounding the skill-biased technological change hypothesis by analyzing the mechanisms that induce information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448176
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Does skill-biased technical change diffuse internationally?
Schulte, Patrick - 2015
This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418759
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Wage divergence and unemployment : the impact of insider power and training costs
Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2000
The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … explanation to the discussion how these distinct labour market equilibria could arise. Skill-biased technological change induces …
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