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of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
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This paper examines whether ICT substitute labour and reduce the demand for labour. We used firm-level comparable data … separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common … unobservable time-invariant firm-specific effects and we found no evidence of a negative relationship between intensity of ICT use …
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Communication Technologies (ICT) and robots, in 14 European countries between 2010 and 2018. To identify the causal effects of … technology adoption, we utilise the variation in technology adoption between industries and apply the instrumental variables … strategy proposed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2020). We find that the exposure to ICT and robots increased the shares of young …
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Although information and communication technologies (ICT) consume energy themselves, they are considered to have the … data, this is the first large-scale empirical study on the relationship between ICT and energy intensity at the firm level …
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of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446141
Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 manufacturing firms from seven European countries. We find that offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of...
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, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a …We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began … physics or electrical engineering department, an indication of the science-based character of the technology. Early adoption …
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between labor of different skills (tasks) on the one hand, and technology as well as outsourcing on the other. Our findings …
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This paper analyses the determinants of spatial distribution of foreign technological activity across 96 German regions (1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent applications. The descriptive analysis shows...
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