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How computerisation is transforming jobs: Evidence from the Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey
Bisello, Martina; Peruffo, Eleonora; Fernandez-Macias, … - 2019
the taxonomy of tasks proposed by Bisello and Fernández-Macías (2016), this work tries to better understand whether … changes in the average intensity of tasks performance are the result of changes in the shares of employment across jobs, or … to the rest, but this is in contrast with a decline in the amount of social tasks people actually do in those (and other …
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How computerisation is transforming jobs : evidence from Eurofound's European Working Conditions Survey
Bisello, Martina; Peruffo, Eleonora; … - 2019
the taxonomy of tasks proposed by Bisello and Fernández-Macías (2016), this work tries to better understand whether … changes in the average intensity of tasks performance are the result of changes in the shares of employment across jobs, or … to the rest, but this is in contrast with a decline in the amount of social tasks people actually do in those (and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114069
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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2000
During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297716
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Falling labor share and rising unemployment: Long-run consequences of institutional shocks?
Berthold, Norbert; Fehn, Rainer; Thode, Eric - 1999
The literature on unemployment has mostly focused on labor market issues while the impact of capital formation is largely neglected. Job-creation is often thought to be a matter of encouraging more employment on a given capital stock. In contrast, this paper explicitly deals with the long-run...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300343
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Cognitive and institutional perspectives of eco effiency: A new research landscape towards factor four (or more)
Bleischwitz, Raimund - 2002
The paper sketches out a theoretical framework for analysing the interplaybetween eco-efficiency, cognition and institutions. It derives from analyticalshortfalls of the prevailing literature, which features strongly engineering andbusiness economics, by using insights from New Institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306201
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Productivity Growth Assessment of Public and Private Sector General Insurance Companies in India: A Malmquist Index Approach
Sinha, Abhijit - In: International Journal of Applied Management Sciences … 3 (2016) 2, pp. 50-61
The researcher in this paper has looked into the general insurance industry in India opening up of the sector to the private players in 2000. The objective of the study is to determine the total factor productivity growth in the general insurance industry in India. The study is based on the...
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Analyzing Africa's Total Factor Productivity Trends: Evidence from the DEA Malmquist Approach
Nondo, Chali; Jaramillo, Juan R - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economies … 7 (2018) 4, pp. 45-61
Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the authors investigate the productivity changes of 42 African countries by computing the Malmquist productivity indices. Subsequently, the measured Malmquist productivity indices become the dependent variables of a pooled truncated regression. The point...
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The Unilateral Implementation of a Sustainable Growth Path with Directed Technical Change
van den Bijgaart, Inge - 2015
We determine the core characteristics of a climate coalition's optimal policies in a dynamic two country directed technical change framework. Unilateral policies alter the structure of production and thereby innovation incentives across countries. Whenever feasible, optimal policies implement...
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Learning by Doing vs Learning by Researching in a Model of Climate Change Policy Analysis
Galeotti, Marzio; Vergalli, Sergio; Castelnuovo, Efrem; … - 2003
Many predictions and conclusions in climate change literature have been made on the basis of theoretical analyses and quantitative models that assume exogenous technological change. One may wonder if those policy prescriptions hold in the more realistic case of endogenously evolving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325043
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Economic Development and Environmental Protection
Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
There is a long-standing debate on the relationship between economic development and environmental quality. From a sustainable development viewpoint there has been a growing concern that the economic expansion of the world economy will cause irreparable damage to our planet. In the last few...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325114