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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data

Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - 2017

ICT-intensive firms are often found to have a better performance than their non-ICTintensive counterparts. Along with … investing in ICT capital they have to adapt their production and business processes in order to reap the potentials implied by … the use of ICT. Are these firms also more resilient in times of crisis? We study this question by exploiting a novel and …

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ICT and resilience in times of crisis : evidence from cross-country micro moments data

Bertschek, Irene; Polder, Michael; Schulte, Patrick - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 28 (2019) 8, pp. 759-774

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Trade and technology : new evidence on the productivity sorting of firms

Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - 2013

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...

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IT, Organizational Change and Wages

Spitz, Alexandra; Bertschek, Irene - 2003

In this paper we analyze the impact of information technology and organizational changes on wages using individual level data for 1998/1999. The average impact of IT use on wages turns out to be five to six percent, however, the effects differ across different IT components. Unless employees use...

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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany

Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 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...

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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers

Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - 2010

The paper analyses the relationship between two major challenges firms are faced to: using the potentials of information technologies (IT) as an enabler of process innovations on the one hand and an ageing workforce that might interfere these potentials on the other hand. Econometric results...

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