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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...

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The Optimality and Overuse of Labour in Estonian Manufacturing Enterprises

Masso, Jaan; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

For transition economies labour market flexibility is necessary for successful restructuring and reallocation of labour force and for coping with the requirements of the European Monetary Union. In this paper we apply a novel approach to the issue of labour market flexibility in transition...

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What Is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

innovation policy makers having employment as one of their specific aims. …

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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature

Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment impact of technological change, compares the relative explanatory power of the competing theories, and explains in detail the macro and micro evidence on the issue, with...

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A Vibrant European Labor Market with Full Employment

Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied …

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

Praag, C. Mirjam van; Versloot, Peter H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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Innovation, Industry Evoluation and Employment

Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, A. Roy - Tinbergen Institute - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a series of articles on the links between innovation, the evolution of … Innovation, Industry Evolution and Employment published by Cambridge University Press in 1999. The continued rising unemployment … been the former, while the continental Europeans have chosen the latter. The purpose the thirteen articles of Innovation …

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Flexible Work Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

A growing literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. This paper makes use of a new employer-employee-linked panel data set for Germany to examine the effects of adopting HPWOs on wages as well as on the wage...

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