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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An Analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper analyzes computer use by older male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on their employment status, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the years 1997 and 2001. In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097589
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IT Training and Employability of Older Workers
Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between firm-provided IT training and the firm?s proportion of older workers. Using data from the ZEW ICT survey of the years 2004 and 2007, the results show that a firm?s IT intensity plays a crucial role: firms intensively using information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097788
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Do hiring subsidies reduce unemployment among the elderly? Evidence from two natural experiments
Ammermüller, Andreas; Zwick, Thomas; Boockmann, Bernhard; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
We estimate the effects of hiring subsidies for older workers on transitions from unemployment to employment in Germany. Using a natural experiment, our first set of estimates is based on a legal change extending the group of eligible unemployed persons. A subsequent legal change in the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097996
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Computer Use and the Employment Status of Older Workers: An analysis Based on Individual Data
Schleife, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper analyzes the determinants of computer use by male employees and estimates the impact of computer use on the employment status for older workers, based on individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). In line with previous research on the diffusion of new technologies,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098129
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Do Older Workers Lower IT-Enabled Productivity? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from German manufacturing and services industries. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098152
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IT is never too late for changes? Analysing the relationship between process innovation, IT and older workers
Bertschek, Irene; Meyer, Jenny - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010
harmful to the probability of process innovation based on IT. Leaving the negative relationship between older workers and the …. Thus, not older workers in general are harmful to firms' innovation capabilities, but older workers who lack the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646449
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Specific measures for older employees and late career employment
Boockmann, Bernhard; Fries, Jan; Göbel, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
heterogeneity and correct for stock-sampling. We find a positive effect of mixed-aged team work on employment duration and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985622
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Intermediate input markets, ICT and innovation in Germany: A firm level analysis
Cerquera, Daniel; Klein, Gordon J. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper studies the impact of the adoption of ICT on the economic performance at the firm level, considering explicitly the interaction of adopting firms within the intermediate input market in Germany. The paper identifies and quantifies the importance of adoption externalities and knowledge...
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The impact on innovation off-shoring on organizational adaptability
Baier, Elisabeth; Rammer, Christian; Schuber, Torben - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
We analyze the effects of captive off-shoring of innovation activities on the firms' ability to adapt their … Community Innovation Survey to test our hypotheses. We find an inverted u-shape of innovation off-shoring on the effectiveness … of organizational adaptability, implying an optimal threshold value of innovation off-shoring. This value is 11% for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957583
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Do trademarks diminish the substitutability of products in innovative knowledge-intensive services?
Crass, Dirk; Schwiebacher, Franz - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Trademarks are often supposed to reduce substitutability and imitability of product innovations. Using German CIS data for 2010, we provide empirical evidence that trademarking firms assess easy product substitutability as less characteristic for their competitive environment. This is...
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