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ICT and occupation-based measures of organisational change: Firm and employee outcomes
Böckerman, Petri; Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010987369
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Productivity: An International Comparison
Hyvärinen, Jari - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2012
This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399070
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Economic Returns to Social Capital in the Urban Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Micro Evidence from Small Textile Producers in Bolivia
Annen, Kurt - EconWPA - 2005
The paper uses micro-level data obtained from surveying informal and formal small textile producers in Bolivia to estimate the economic returns to social capital. Social capital is defined as being linked to other individuals. The paper studies forms of social links that vary with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407753
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Income Distribution and the Size of the Informal Sector
Winkelried, Diego - EconWPA - 2005
This paper studies the role of income distribution as a determinant of the size of the informal sector in an economy by relying on a channel whereby inequality affects the behaviour of aggregate demand and thus influences the incentives a firm has to become informal. It is further postulated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118800
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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
We present a three-sector general equilibrium model with an informal sector, which produces an intermediary for the formal sector, and analyze the effects of different policies on the environmental standard and welfare of the economy. Since the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118943
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Essays on the Gender Wage Gap in Finland
Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2008
This dissertation is an empirical study of the gender wage gap in Finland. Much of the dissertation focuses explicitly on the early career as it is found that the first years after labour market entry are of great importance with respect to the overall gender wage gap. The dissertation consists...
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Evaluating the effect of tax deductions on training
Leuven, Edwin; Oosterbeek, Hessel - EconWPA - 2002
Due to a tax law implemented in 1998, Dutch employers can claim an extra tax deduction when they train employees aged 40 years or older. This causes a discontinuity in a firm's cost of training an employee. We exploit this discontinuity to identify two effects: the effect of the tax deduction on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125714
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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium
Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002
We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005126186
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Which Human Capital Matters for Rich and Poor’s Wages? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data from Tunisia
Muller, Christophe; Nordman, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper, we study the return to human capital variables for wages of workers observed in Tunisian matched worker-firm data in 1999. This tells us how returns to human capital in a Less Developed Country like Tunisia differ from the industrial countries usually studied with matched data. We...
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels
Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004
with different match qualities. No search effort by the agent is needed to receive offers. Individual productivity declines … agent. A further complication is due to the unobservability of an agent’s productivity. I find that under an optimal …, agents whose productivity is relatively high tend to have a shorter unemployment duration and a higher productivity growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408328