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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - 1999

This paper provides a labour supply explanation to the observation that in Germany employment changes are asymmetric during the business cycle. Employment increases are slower, because the reservation wage of workers increases in times of job uncertainty. Workers are afraid in those periods of...

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Innovations induce asymmetric employment movements

Zwick, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1999

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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - 2000

During the last 20 years, R&D and innovation activities in the service sector have clearly increased. Especially business services are believed to be one of the main drivers of technical changes and economic progress. Looking at the labour indices calculated over the period from 1982 to 1996 one...

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Business services in Germany: bridges for innovation

Czarnitzki, Dirk; Spielkamp, Alfred - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000

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Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Coneus, Katja; Gernandt, Johannes; Saam, Marianne - 2008

noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills and Internet availability at home are negatively associated with the … education vanishes for males once we control for additional characteristics such as occupations, professional Internet use and …

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De-routinization in the fourth industrial revolution: Firm-level evidence

Arntz, Melanie; Genz, Sabrina; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, … - 2024

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...

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Are we yet sick of new technologies? The unequal health effects of digitalization

Arntz, Melanie; Findeisen, Sebastian; Maurer, Stephan; … - 2024

and service-oriented tasks across all workers, but exacerbates health inequality between cognitive and manual workers …

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for fulltime working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Racing with or against the machine? Evidence from Europe

Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016

A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that …

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Offshoring and relative labor demand from a task perspective

Hogrefe, Jan - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

This paper provides new evidence on how offshoring shifts relative labor demand for tasks at the industry level. A …, guides estimation. Cost shares of tasks are linked to offshoring in a panel estimation using German data for 1998-2007. It is … shown that offshoring shifts home country relative labor demand towards more complex tasks with higher relocation cost. This …

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