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Impact of ICT and Human Skills on the European Financial Intermediation Sector
Erber, Georg - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of ICT- and non-ICT capital, and of labour at different skill levels, on productivity and employment in the financial intermediation sector of twelve EU member countries plus the US and Japan. A stochastic possibility frontiers (SPF) approach is applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012940629
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Impact of ICT and Human Skills on the European Financial Intermediation Sector
Erber, Georg - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of ICT- and non-ICT capital, and of labour at different skill levels, on productivity and employment in the financial intermediation sector of twelve EU member countries plus the US and Japan. A stochastic possibility frontiers (SPF) approach is applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706430
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Digitalisation and productivity : a report by the ESCB expert group on productivity, innovation and technological change
Bijnens, Gert; Botelho, Vasco; Falck, Elisabeth; … - 2024
The productivity-enhancing effects of digitalisation have generated increased interest in the promotion of digital technologies. This report provides different estimations for euro area countries of the impact of digital uptake on productivity at firm level, showing that the adoption of digital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014479720
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Absorptive capacity, innovation cooperation and human-capital : evidence from 3 European countries
Franco, Chiara; Marzucchi, Alberto; Montresor, Sandro - 2012
. Innovation cooperation is recognised as one of its antecedents, along with R&D, but with different possible outcomes, depending … on innovation. The empirical application, carried out on about 10,500 firms located in 3 EU countries (i.e. Germany … firm's AC providing it occurs within the national boundaries. The transformation of AC into actual innovation is favoured …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011982361
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Human Capital Development and Innovation : The Case of Training in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Baldwin, John R.; Johnson, Joanne - 2013
facilitated by training is complementary to innovation and technological change. Training incidence is found to be closely related … strategies that are related to innovation. Training is also greater where a firm emphasizes quality and a comprehensive human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014115498
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Nested Stochastic Possibility Frontiers with Heterogeneous Capital Inputs
Erber, Georg - 2008
This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of the U.S. at the macroeconomic level. The stochastic possibility frontiers approach of Battese and Coelli (1992) applied here is used to identify neutralities or nonneutralities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726102
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Empirical studies on the impacts of ICT usage in Europe
Falk, Martin; Biagi, Federico - 2015
degree. The third study investigates whether and to what extent ICT/e-commerce activities are enablers of innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980305
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The distinct effects of information technologies and communication technologies on the age-skill composition of labour demand
Blanas, Sotiris - 2019
This paper is the first to study the distinct effects of Information Technologies (IT) and Communication Technologies (CT) on the skill, age, and age-skill composition of labour demand. The analysis is conducted on a sample comprising 10 developed countries, 30 industries covering the largest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967410
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The effect of computer use on job quality : evidence from Europe
Salvatori, Andrea; Menon, Seetha; Zwysen, Wouter - 2018
This paper studies changes in computer use and job quality in the EU-15 between 1995 and 2015. We document that while the proportion of workers using computers has increased from 40% to more than 60% over twenty years, there remain significant differences between countries even within the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793086
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Are ICT displacing workers? : evidence from seven European countries
Pantea, Smaranda; Biagi, Federico; Sabadash, Anna - 2014
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 methodology and applied it to a unique dataset...
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