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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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TIPIK, technology and infrastructures policy in the knowledge-based economy : the impact of the tendency towards codification of knowledge; report prepared for the EU Programme Tar...
Muller, Emmanuel; Zenker, Andrea; Meyer-Krahmer, Frieder - 2000
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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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Enhancing SME productivity : policy highlights on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages
Marchese, Marco; Giuliani, Elisa; Salazar-Elena, Juan Carlos - 2019
Based on an extensive review of the academic and policy literature, this paper focuses on the role of managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents estimates on productivity gaps by firm size to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107195
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The economic cost of air pollution : evidence from Europe
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Rivers, Nicholas; Stadler, Balazs - 2019
This study provides the first evidence that air pollution causes economy-wide reductions in market economic activity based on data for Europe. The analysis combines satellite-based measures of air pollution with statistics on regional economic activity at the NUTS-3 level throughout the European...
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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...
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Financial sector pay and labour income inequality : evidence from Europe
Denk, Oliver - 2015
Public questioning about the role of finance has been fuelled by the perception that financial sector pay is an important factor behind high economic inequalities. This paper is the first to provide a comprehensive look at the level of earnings in finance and the implications for labour income...
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