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Employment Effects of Innovation at the Firm Level
Rottmann, Horst; Lachenmaier, Stefan - Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften <Amberg - 2007
This paper analyzes empirically the effects of innovation onemployment at the firm level using a uniquely long panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866096
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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity ofSkilled Labor
Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Skill-biased technical change is usually interpreted in terms of the efficiency parameters ofskilled and unskilled labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863221
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Adjusting to Skill Shortages:Complexity and Consequences
Healy, Joshua; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Skill shortages are often portrayed as a major problem for the economies of many countriesincluding the Australian economy. Yet, there is surprisingly little evidence about theirprevalence, causes and consequences. This paper attempts to improve our understandingabout these issues by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522200
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Globalization and Employment:Imported Skill Biased Technological Changein Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
This paper discusses the impact of the international transfer of embodiedtechnological change on the employment evolution of skills in a sample of low andmiddle income countries (LMICs). A large body of literature has already underlinedthe occurrence of widening wage and employment differentials...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864589
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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863024
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Technological and Organizational Changes, andLabor Flows: Evidence on French Establishments
Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno Galbis, Eva - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on jobstability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis inwhich we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of Frenchestablishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863370
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Market Size or Acceleration Effects; Comparing Hy pothese s to Explain Skill Biased Technical Change
Sanders, Mark - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2005
Skill-biased technical change has occupied empirical economists for much of the 90s. However, the empirical literature has not progressed much beyond observing a positive correlation between technology indicators and demand shifts. Two hypotheses on the root causes of skill biases in technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865028
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Age-Biased Technological and Organizational Change:Firm-Level Evidence and Management Implications
Beckmann, Michael; Schauenberg, Bernd - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel>
This paper examines the question, whether the growing use of new technologies anddecentralized forms of work organization affects the age structure of workforces withinfirms. The initial idea behind this relationship is that technological and organizationalchange may not only be skill-biased,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867784
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Verdienen Manager, was sie verdienen? –Eine wirtschaftsethische Stellungnahme
Pies, Ingo; Sass, Peter - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2010
In der öffentlichen Diskussion werden die Bezüge von Führungskräften mit der Semantikder Leistungsgerechtigkeit bewertet. Allerdings zeigt eine detaillierte Analysevon Prinzipal-Agent-Problemen in der modernen Wirtschaft, dass eine leistungsgerechteEntlohnung oft nicht das beste Ergebnis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756553
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Genetic Codes of Mergers, Post Merger Technology Evolution and Why Mergers Fail
Cuntz, Alexander - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
This paper addresses the key determinants of merger failure, in particularthe role of innovation (post … introduce a model of process innovation where merged firmsexibit intra-merger spillover of knowledge under different market …) which contradicts the notion of failureand suits well the open innovation paradigm. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860566