Substituierbarkeitspotenzial beschreibt inwieweit menschliche Arbeit durch digitalisierte Technik grundsätzlich ersetzbar ist. Bereits im Jahr 2015 stellte das IAB fest, dass in kaum einem Beruf der Mensch vollständig durch Technik ersetzbar wäre, jedoch insbesondere manuelle, repetitive...

Das Substituierbarkeitspotenzial ist das Ausmaß, indem menschliche Arbeit durch digitalisierte Technik potenziell ersetzbar wäre. Bereits für das Jahr 2013 stellte das IAB fest, dass in kaum einem Beruf der Mensch vollständig durch Technik ersetzbar wäre, jedoch insbesondere manuelle,...

The present System of National Accounts (SNA93) treats durable consumption goods as consumption goods rather than investment although rentals for owner occupied households is imputed into GDP. We argue that households de facto treat the purchase of durable goods as investments and thus, the...

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the effect of durable goods and ICT on Euro Area economic growth and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the...

The diffusion of two general purpose technologies, electricity and ICT, in the Finnish manufacturing industry is observed. The full diffusion of electricity as motive power in the 1920s and 1930s led to a step-up of nearly 4 percentage points in manufacturing LP. Furthermore, all industries...

This paper presents new calculations for the production and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP). As the increase in LP seems to have mushroomed...

Firstly, we investigated the determinants of a) the propensity of Swiss firms to provide apprenticeship training, and b) the intensity of training (measured by the employment share of apprentices). We primarily were interested in the relevance as explanatory factors of the three constituent...

The paper aims at explaining empirically the diffusion of E-commerce based on two largescale sample surveys conducted in the Swiss economy. The paper adds to previous work in two ways: firstly, we estimate separate models for E-selling and E-purchasing, and, secondly, we distinguish between...