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Workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises
Lorenz, Edward H.; Potter, Jonathan - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between workplace organisation and innovation in small and medium … Assessment of Adult Competencies and the Community Innovation Survey. It contrasts SMEs adopting a “learning organisation” or …, knowledge exchange with employees and supervisors, on-the-job training, and employee performance incentives. They account for …
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An exploration of the determinants of the subjective well-being of Americans during the Great Recession
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Tassot, Caroline - 2014
This paper uses data from the American Life Panel to understand the determinants of well-being in the United States during the Great Recession. It investigates how various dimensions of subjective wellbeing reflected in the OECD Better Life Framework impact subjective well-being. The results...
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Improving well-being in the United States
Caldera Sánchez, Aida; Lenain, Patrick; Fleche, Sarah - 2014
Life is quite good in the United States compared to other OECD countries, thanks to strong economic growth and technological progress having lifted average income to high levels. Nonetheless, there is evidence that the benefits from growth have not been sufficiently broad based. Self-reported...
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Exploring the causal relation between obesity and alcohol use, and educational outcomes
Vuik, Sabine; Devaux, Marion; Cecchini, Michele - 2019
Two of the most important health risk factors for children and young adults are obesity and alcohol use. These risk factors are known to affect health and wellbeing, but may also have an impact on educational outcomes. The objective of this study was to assess a potential causal relationship...
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Employment of ICT specialists in the EU (2000-2012)
Sabadash, Anna - 2014
This study examines the evolution of the number of ICT-skilled workers employed in industry sectors in the EU28 over the period 2000-2012. Data are taken from the Eurostat Labour Force Statistics. It introduces a novel definition of ICT specialists that combines occupations and skills...
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The impact of highly-skilled ICT labour on firm performance : empirical evidence from six European countries
Hagsten, Eva; Sabadash, Anna - 2014
While unemployment in the EU is above 10%, the job vacancy rate also remains high around 1.5%. This suggests considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special role that schooled ICT experts in firms - an intangible...
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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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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 …
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Digitalisation and productivity : in search of the holy grail : firm-level empirical evidence from EU countries
Gál, Peter; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Renault, Theodore; … - 2019
This paper assesses how the adoption of a range of digital technologies affects firm productivity. It combines cross-country firm-level data on productivity and industry-level data on digital technology adoption in an empirical framework that accounts for firm heterogeneity. The results provide...
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Returns to different forms of job related training : factoring in informal learning
Fialho, Priscilla; Quintini, Glenda; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
This study aims at disentangling the returns to formal, non-formal and informal training and fills key knowledge gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102998