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Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Durazzi, Niccolo; Tonelli, Simone - 2024
actors-unions, employers and the government-to actively adjust such systems to meet the needs of a labour market that has … socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054229
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273105
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Selviytymistä vai suorituskykyä? Terveydenhuolto organisoinnin, tiedonhallinnan ja henkilökunnan kannalta
Kauhanen, Antti; Kulvik, Martti; Maijanen, Sirpa; … - 2013
This report is an overview to the presentations and discussions in the seminar Survival or performance? Healthcare viewed through organization, information management, and personnel held on 3.9.2012. The seminar provided an interdisciplinary forum for the question how the health care system may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037632
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Trends der Nahversorgung in ländlichen Räumen
Kokorsch, Matthias; Küpper, Patrick - 2019
Seit Jahrzehnten ist der Lebensmitteleinzelhandel von einem Strukturwandel hin zu weniger und größeren Geschäften … verloren hat. Des Weiteren weisen Verbraucherbefragungen darauf hin, dass sich die für Deutschland typische hohe …During the past decades grocery-retailing in Germany has experienced a structural change to-wards less but larger shops …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012038720
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What Follows Tertiarisation? Structural Change and the Role of Knowledge-based Services
Peneder, Michael; Kaniovski, Serguei; Dachs, Bernhard - 2001
The rise of the service economy has been the predominant pattern of structural change in the twentieth century. This article investigates the driving forces behind the recent stages of this development. Focusing on international input - output data from the early 1970s to the 1990s, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435074
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
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Fixed-term employment, work organization and job satisfaction: Evidence from German individual-level data
Beckmann, Michael; Cornelissen, Thomas; Schauenberg, Bernd - 2009
The present paper examines the joint effect of fixed-term employment and work organization on job satisfaction using individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Specifically, we analyze whether workers who are heterogeneous in terms of the type of working contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390641
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The production and use of ICT in Finland, 1975 - 2001
Jalava, Jukka - 2002
Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285176
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Advancing information technology and financial intermediation
Mannonen, Pekka - 2001
The whole financial sector has been under a remarkable structural change, and one of the major contributing forces has been the rapid advance in information processing based on digital technology. The purpose of this paper is to model the influence of advancing information and transaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284915