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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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E-skills mismatch : evidence from International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)

Pellizzari, Michele; Biagi, Federico; Brecko, Barbara - 2015

In this report we produce measures of skill mismatch in the domain of problem solving in technology-rich-environments using PIAAC data for the 13 countries of the European Union participating in the programme (plus the US), extending the methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We...

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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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Profits, R&D and labour : breaking the law of diminishing returns to labour

Amoroso, Sara - 2015

, theoretical studies on knowledge and labour specialization assume that an increase in the knowledge investment embodied in the … returns to labour vary with their level of knowledge capital (R&D) intensity. Our econometric analysis provides a number of … results. First, we find that more knowledge intensive firms have non-diminishing returns to labour, while less knowledge …

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Making the most of immigration in Canada

Carey, David - 2018

Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital, to reunite families and to respond to foreign crises and offer protection to endangered people. Economic-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far...

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Making employment more inclusive in the Netherlands

Baker, Mark; Gielens, Lindy - 2018

The Dutch labour market has recovered and the unemployment rate has been converging towards pre-crisis levels. Non-standard forms of work have expanded with a strong trend towards self-employment and an increased reliance on temporary contracts. These developments may reflect a preference of...

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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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What is happening to middle skill workers?

Green, Andrew S. - 2019

This report asks what is happening to middle-skill workers. Driven by mega trends such as automation, ageing and offshoring, the share of jobs whose wages placed them firmly in the middle of the wage distribution has been declining. Termed job polarisation, economists have observed the decline...

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Returns to different forms of job related training : factoring in informal learning

Fialho, Priscilla; Quintini, Glenda; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019

This study aims at disentangling the returns to formal, non-formal and informal training and fills key knowledge gaps …

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