T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economicenvironments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skillsto adapt resource allocations to those shocks were most in need. We hypothesize that variationin returns to human capital...

Parental involvement in their children’s lives can have a lasting impact on wellbeing.More involved parents convey to their children that they are interested intheir development, and this in turn signals to the child that their future is valued.However, what happens in socio-economically...

Financial constraints have been found to play an important role on various aspects of firmbehavior. Yet, their effects on firm survival have been largely neglected. We use a panel of9420 newly established UK firms over the period 1997-2002 to study the effects offinancial variables on firms´...

In dieser Berufsmarktstudie wurden in der Schweiz privatwirtschaftliche Unternehmen und öffentlich-rechtliche Institutionen als potenzielle Arbeitgeber für Informationsspezialisten zu gegenwärtigen Anforderungen und künftigen Perspektiven des Arbeitsmarktes befragt. Sie heben gleichermassen...

This report presents the results of the eHealth Benchmarking study carried out by empirica on behalf of the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media. The study aimed to collate and analyse existing eHealth monitoring and benchmarking sources in order to identify best practice in...

Much of the debate around telework, eWork and other ICT-based ways of remote workhas been driven by notions of technology-driven progress. Often, this has led to theassumption that locationally flexible forms of working had an “inbuilt” tendency to benefitworkers by giving them more...

There is an increasing number of researchers conducting empirical and theoretical investigations tobetter understand innovation and protection activities of service companies. In fact, previous analysesreveal that the protection topic is difficult to study, particularly when using traditional...

The paper investigates the specific challenges created by new online services and delivery methods with regard to the protection of consumers interests. By means of a survey of a representative sample of online consumers in five EU countries, the authors found a high degree of interest in young...

ICTs open up radically new ways in which to address the basic challenges of regional development in the Knowledge-Based Society. The transformative potential of ICTs resides, in particular, in the way they enable networking, learning and innovation, and empowerment. A horizontal theme that runs...