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Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cellphoneson Productivity in a Diffi cult Business Climate:Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
Menon, Nidhiya - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators toovercome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce,corruption, and finance. This study shows that such reliance has significant positive impactson productivity as measured by...
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Computer Adoption and Returns in Transition: TheoryAppendix
Orazem, Peter F.; Singh, Rajesh Kumar; Kuku, Yemisi - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006
skills who do not use computers. Controlling for likely simultaneity between computer use at work and labor market earnings … makes the apparent returns to computer use disappear. These results are corroborated using Russian longitudinal data on … earnings and computer use on the job. High costs of computer use in transition economies suppress wages that firms can pay …
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Use IT or Lose IT?The Impact of Computers on Earnings
Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used isinvestigated using British data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863260
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Vertical Integration and Dis-integration of ComputerFirms: A History Friendly Model of the Co-evolutionof the Computer and Semiconductor Industries
Malerba, Franco; Nelson, Richard; Orsenigo, Luigi; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006
of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is“history friendly”, in that it attempts at replicating some … integrationand specialization in the computer industry change as a function of the evolving levels anddistribution of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005865970
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Patente auf computerimplementierte Erfindungen
Deutschland / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und … - 2006
Diese Broschüre richtet sich vor allem an kleine undmittlere Unternehmen und Selbständige, die Forschungund Entwicklung betreiben und dabei aufSoftware (Computerprogramme) zurückgreifen. Fürsie stellt sich alsbald die Frage nach Schutzrechten.Heute gehören Software und der PC zum...
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Relationship Quality in the Context of Computer-Mediated Communicataion
Meissner, Jens O. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2005
methodology has to be found.First, the interrelationship between computer-mediated communication (CMC) andrelationship quality is … based studies in computer-mediated contexts. In the concluding part, the contributionof this approach to research and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005867943
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Environmental Analysis for Application Layer Networks
Schnizler, Björn; Neumann, Dirk; Veit, Daniel; … - Universitätsbibliothek <Bayreuth> - 2005
The increasing interconnection between computers through the Internet has emergedthe vision of Application Layer Networks. Application Layer Networks comprise anabstract view on overlay networks (e.g. Peer-to-Peer networks, Grid infrastructures) ontop of the TCP/IP protocol. Their common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005868927
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Theoretical and Computational Basis for CATNETS -Annual Report Year 3
Veit, Daniel; Buß, Georg; Schnizler, Björn; Neumann, Dirk - Universitätsbibliothek <Bayreuth> - 2007
The primary target of the CATNETS project is the quantitative comparison between thetechnical and economic efficiency of market-based resource allocation mechanisms inapplication layer networks such as Grids. Here, two fundamentally different approachesare compared. A centralized –...
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CATNETS Final Activity Report
Streitberger, Werner; Eymann, Torsten - Universitätsbibliothek <Bayreuth> - 2007
Future Grid network technology will face the problem of the efficient provisioning ofservices to clients by a scalable and dynamic resource allocation (matching) mechanism.The objective of CATNETS is to determine the applicability of a decentralizedeconomic self-organization mechanism for...
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Tagungsband zum Doctoral Consortium der WI 2009
Eymann, Torsten - 2009
computer processing time, as a metered service similarto a traditional public utility (such as electricity, water, natural gas …
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