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B2B or Not to Be: Does B2B E-Commerce Increase Labour Productivity?
Bertschek, Irene; Fryges, Helmut; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2004
We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities...
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Exports and productivity growth: first evidence from a continuous treatment approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
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Unions, training, and firm performance
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2008
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...
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Gibrat's Law and the Firm Size / Firm Growth Relationship in Italian Services
Piergiovanni, R.; Santarelli, E.; Klomp, L.; Thurik, A.R. - 2002
Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...
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School quality and family background in Italy
Brunello, Giorgio; Checchi, Daniele - 2003
quality on educational attainment and returns to education has been particularly significant for the individuals born in … negative on school returns. Better school quality has also had asymmetric effects on the returns to education, positive for … education. Our evidence suggests that better school quality, measured by a lower pupil-teacher ratio, is a technical substitute …
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Are occupations paid what they are worth? An econometric study of occupational wage inequality and productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - 2011
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...
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Unpaid overtime in Germany : differences between East and West
Anger, Silke - 2003
Although the standard work week is longer in East than in West Germany, there is a higher incidence and average amount of unpaid overtime worked in the new states. We try to explain the striking differences in unpaid overtime by analyzing the labor supply side. We focus on the investment...
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Produktivitätseffekte betrieblicher Zusatzleistungen
Lutz, Roman - 2005
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Produktivitätswirkungen von fünf unterschiedlichen Formen betrieblicher Zusatzleistungen analysiert. Als Datensatz wird das IAB-Betriebspanel aus dem Jahr 2000 verwendet. Im Ergebnis bestätigt diese Arbeit die Anreiztheorien, welche einen positiven...
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Productivity effects of organizational change: microeconometric evidence
Bertschek, Irene; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2001
This paper analyzes the relationship between investment in information and communication technologies (ICT), non-ICT-investment, labor productivity and workplace reorganization. Firms are assumed to reorganize workplaces if the productivity gains arising from workplace reorganization exceed the...
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Reassessing the Impact of High Performance Workplaces
Zwick, Thomas; Wolf, Elke - 2002
High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity...
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