Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 225
Cover Image
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 for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445002
Cover Image
Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services
Falk, Martin - 2001
of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … multivariate probit models. The empirical results suggest that OC has a positive effect on actual employment growth given output … and factor price changes. Furthermore, we find that organizational change has a positive impact on expected employment for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446141
Cover Image
New technologies and the demand for medium qualified labour in Germany
Jacobebbinghaus, Peter; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
The literature on skill-biased technological change concentrates on highly skilled and unskilled employees. It is … unclear, however, if the employment opportunities of the majority of the labour force in Germany-employees with a degree from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445926
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies investigating the impacts on economic growth, employment and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522665
Cover Image
The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level : empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
innovations reduce employment. We detect skill biased technological change of environmental innovations. Environmental innovations …This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried … out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445814
Cover Image
A dynamic heterogeneous labour demand model for German manufacturing
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 2000
. Furthermore, both shortrun and long-run labour demands of different skill classes are inelastic. Unskilled labour is found to have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011444593
Cover Image
Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process … Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442453
Cover Image
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 … market products is more important than any other measure of product innovation in determining the expected employment … graduates. Joint implementation of new products and new processes have a stronger impact on the employment expectations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011443464
Cover Image
The use of flexible working contracts in West Germany : evidence from an establishment panel
Boockmann, Bernhard; Hagen, Tobias - 2001
used as means of adjustment. Other important factors are employees' skill levels, investment in information technology, and … are associated with a higher probability of employing atypical work, which suggests that these forms of employment are … reducing dismissal protection decreases the demand for fixed-term employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446246