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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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The Ambivalent Effect of Complexity on Firm Performance : A Study in the Global Service Provider Industry
Larsen, Marcus M. - 2018
performance. Using rich data on global service providers, we explore this ambivalence by disentangling performance consequences of … moderating effects of process commoditization and client-specific investments. Our findings point to critical performance … dilemmas facing global service providers in a highly competitive industry, and they help better differentiate performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928385
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The Rise of Hollywood East : Regional Film Offices as Intermediaries in Film and Television Production Clusters
Foster, Pacey; Manning, Stephan; Terkla, David - 2017
Prior research on project-based organizing in creative industries has emphasized the importance of regionally embedded institutions, creative networks and intermediaries in the development of regional project ecologies. Recently, film and television production in the United States has expanded...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158585
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Global Delivery Models : The Role of Talent, Speed and Time Zones in the Global Outsourcing Industry
Manning, Stephan; Larsen, Marcus M.; Bharati, Pratyush - 2017
Global delivery models (GDMs) are transforming the global IT and business process outsourcing industry. GDMs are a new form of client-specific investment promoting services integration with clients by combining client proximity with time-zone spread for 24/7 service operations. We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014136833
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The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than … others, they stay closer to the frontier, while others fall behind. Because wages rise for all workers, marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250019
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Entrepreneurship and Occupational Choice in the Global Economy
Díez, Federico J. - 2020
supported by the data: (i) entrepreneurship increases with the cost of importing, (ii) entrepreneurship increases with the cost … of exporting, (iii) higher levels of entrepreneurship are associated with a lower fraction of exporting firms. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857449
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080486
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Human Capital, Schooling and Health Returns
Schultz, T. Paul - 2008
A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087237
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Better means more : property rights and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul; Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896204
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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship
Estrin, Saul - 2009
This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the … Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional … entrepreneurship, but has less pronounced effects for entrepreneurial entry. The availability of finance and the fiscal burden matter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155593