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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk (contributor);  … - 2009
analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany … wage inequality in Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805653
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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 technologies to be complementary to employees with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448176
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Are skill requirements in the workplace rising? : Stylized facts and evidence on skill-biased technological change
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002038928
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Existenzgründerpotentiale unter Arbeitsuchenden : empirische Evidenz auf der Basis des Mikrozensus
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1999
In April 1995, 5.3 million people in Germany were on the lookout for a new job opportunity. 177,000 or nearly 3% of … selfemployment in lieu of wage work are investigated separately for East and West Germany. Using the 70 %-ZEW-sample of the … factors like age, sex and education, on the status in the labour market. In 1991 in East Germany the probability of aspiring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442339
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R&D and firm performance in a transition economy
Czarnitzki, Dirk (contributor); Kraft, Kornelius (contributor) - 2006
of firms in Western Germany and Eastern Germany as a transitional economy. Innovative activity has a positive impact on … firm value proxied by ratings in Western Germany, but a negative impact in Eastern Germany. We also consider future … financial distress, and find that R&D in Eastern German firms leads to higher default risk, in contrast to Western Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328090
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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function
Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006
The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the economic literature. However, most studies from the field of economics only distinguish between exporting and non-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319677
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Does innovation stimulate employment? : a firm-level analysis using comparable micro-data from four uropean countries
Harrison, Rupert; Jaumandreu Balanzo, Jordi; Mairesse, … - 2008
innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …
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ICT, consulting and innovative capabilities
Cerquera, Daniel (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of the decision to contract ICT consulting on firms' innovative incentives. The paper develops a theoretical model and estimates some of its implications for a sample of German firms. In particular, the paper estimates the average treatment effect of the decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805623
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Do older workers lower IT-enabled productivity? : firm-level evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene (contributor); Meyer, Jenny (contributor) - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003805636
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The impact of innovation on employment in small and medium enterprises with different growth rates
Zimmermann, Volker (contributor) - 2008
This article examines the impact of innovation on employment growth in innovating small and medium enterprises using a quantile regression approach. The key findings are that innovation has a positive effect on employment in both growing and shrinking firms. The impact of innovation on employee...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806158