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Productivity, innovation and ICT in Old and New Europe

van Ark, Bart; Piatkowski, Marcin - 2004

This paper investigates the productivity performance of CEE countries vis-à-vis the EU-15 during the 1990s to detect sources of convergence between the two regions. The paper shows that changes in labour intensity have been an important source of productivity convergence during the 1990s, and...

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Market forces and the continent's growth problem

2009

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Neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik: Lösung für den Arbeitsmarkt der Zukunft?

Klein, Stefan; Bertschek, Irene; Falck, Oliver; Mang, … - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 92 (2012) 11, pp. 723-736

Moderne Kommunikationsmittel haben Arbeitsprozesse tiefgreifend verändert, Qualifikationsanforderungen nachhaltig verschoben und neue Beschäftigungsformen gefördert. Die Funktionsmechanismen des Arbeitsmarktes, aber auch die Jobsuche, wurden durch sie transparenter und effizienter. Die...

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Unraveling the Origins of EU Countries Productivity Growth - Evidence on R&D and Competition from Cross-Country Industry Analysis

Strobel, Thomas - 2010

analysis reveals that growth in innovation stocks via increasedR&D in specialized and science-based industries spurred … lacking such effects. Moreover, these specialized and science-basedindustries experienced strong innovation and productivity …

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Innovation cooperation in East Germany - only a half-way success?

Günther, Jutta - 2003

The paper focuses on the question whether enterprises that engage in innovation cooperation with external partners are …

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Assessing the potential for knowledge-based development in the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia

Veugelers, Reinhilde - 2010

by the working paper measure up according to traditional innovation input and output indicators. But the major part of … highly-developed innovation profiles. Analysis of the prerequisites for knowledge-based growth indicates that transition …

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Do hedonic price indexes change history? The case of electrification

Edquist, Harald - 2005

Rapid price decreases for ICT-products in the 1990s have been largely attributed to the introduction of hedonic price indexes. Would hedonic price indexing also have large effects on measured price and productivity during earlier technological breakthroughs? This paper investigates the impact of...

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How and why do firms differ?

Klette, Tor Jakob; Raknerud, Arvid - 2002

How do firms differ, and why do they di.er even within narrowly defined industries? Using evidence from six high-tech, manufacturing industries covering a 24-year period, we show that di.erences in sales, materials, labor costs and capital across firms can largely be summarized by a single,...

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Do external technology acquisitions matter for innovative efficiency and productivity?

Gantumur, Tseveen; Stephan, Andreas - 2010

technology affects the efficiency and productivity in innovation of technology acquiring firms. Using the stochastic frontier … analysis combined with a difference-in-difference matching approach and firm-level panel from the German Innovation Survey for … external R&D in innovation production, which is attributed by increasing returns to R&D scale and increasing technical …

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Analyse der Digitalisierung in der Schweizer Wirtschaft

Beck, Mathias; Plekhanov, Dmitry; Wörter, Martin - 2020

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