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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments - which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …

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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers

Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002

This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set 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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Measuring and interpreting trends in the division of labour in the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2011

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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The catalysing role of in-house R&D in fostering the complementarity of innovative inputs

Catozzella, Alessandra; Vivarelli, Marco - 2007

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

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Lying and team incentives

Conrads, Julian; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Rilke, Rainer Michael; … - 2011

We investigate the influence of two widespread compensation schemes, individual piece-rates and team incentives, on … pronounced under team incentives than under individual piece-rates, which highlights a so far fairly neglected feature of these …

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The dynamic of job competition during the ICT revolution

Chéron, Arnaud; Langot, François - 2007

Our paper seeks to gain insights on the effect of labor market institutions on the evolution of overeducation (job competition), unemployment inequalities and job instability during the polarization process of the labor market fostered by the diffusion of novel technologies. Based on micro data,...

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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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Technology Adoption and Workforce Skill in U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Dunne, Timothy; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill in US manufacturing plants. Using information on the use and adoption of seven different information technologies, we find that the relationship between technology adoption and workforce skill varies across the...

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The Determinants of the Global Digital Divide : A Cross-Country Analysis of Computer and Internet Penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2004

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

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