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The new economy and developing countries: Assessing the role of ICT diffusion
Baliamoune, Mina N. - 2002
Using data from developing countries, this paper explores the nature and direction of the links between ICT diffusion and per capita income, trade and financial indicators, education, and freedom indicators. Internet hosts, Internet users, personal computers and mobile phones represent...
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ICT and Substitution between Out-of-home and At-home Work; the Importance of Timing
de Graaff, Thomas; Rietveld, Piet - 2003
This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s …
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Ländliche Räume in NRW - Räume mit Zukunftsperspektiven. Schwerpunktthema "Wirtschaft und Arbeit": Teil-Positionspapier 1
Arens, Stephanie; Bradtke, Alexandra; Claßen, Thomas; … - 2022
, regionalspezifischen Stärken und Potenzialen. Maßgebliche Herausforderungen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und für den Wandel der …
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Peripherality and the impact of SME takeovers
Foreman-Peck, James; Nicholls, Tom - 2008
If large companies buy small dynamic enterprises, and move them to the headquarters' location or elsewhere, the process could suppress regional, or dependent, economy income and productivity. We investigate this hypothesis by analysing around 2 million observations of the UK enterprise- level...
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Academic research, higher education, and peripheral development: The case of Israel
Degani, Gad; Levanon, Dan; Yom Din, Gregory - In: Economies 9 (2021) 3, pp. 1-9
institutions of higher education on mitigating differences between the center and the periphery of the country. MIGAL is a regional … development in the northeast periphery. Several variables related to this link and describing MIGAL-TH and northeastern periphery … graduate students; and the socioeconomic index (SEI) of the northeastern periphery and its position on the Israeli list of …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297336
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Innovation and Information Technology in Services
Licht, Georg; Moch, Dietmar - 1997
The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by various recent papers (e.g. Oliner and Sichels 1994, Landauer 1995, Brynjolfsson and Hitt 1996). Several explanations are given for this missing link. Our paper deals with two...
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Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are...
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The impact of information technology on high-skilled labour in services: evidence from firm level panel data
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
This paper analyses the link between the high-skilled employment share and the level of investment in information technology (IT) in the service production process. The analysis is based on an unbalanced panel data set for 933 West German firms over the period 1994-1996. To account for firms...
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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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