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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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The Long-Run Educational Cost of World War II: An Example of Local Average Treatment Effect Estimation
Ichino, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
data for Austria, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland, we estimate the cost of the war in terms of earning losses, suffered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124013
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Explaining Anglo-German Productivity Differences in Services Since 1870
Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Germany overtook Britain in comparative productivity levels for the whole economy primarily as a result of trends in … economies of scale in a highly urbanised economy with an international orientation. Low productivity in Germany reflected the … services rather than trends in industry. Britain’s productivity lead in services before World War II reflected external …
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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Monte, Ferdinando; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked data set for Germany to examine the labour market effects of flexible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504382
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Weather shocks and English wheat yields, 1690-1871
Brunt, Liam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
reconcile the conflicting primal and dual estimates of productivity growth over the period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249371