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The Diffusion of Information Technology and the Increased Propensity of Teams to Transcend Institutional and National Borders

Winkler, Anne E.; Glänzel, Wolfgang; Levin, Sharon; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaboration patterns across … natural sciences and narrower fields such as economics and biology. Two measures of institutional collaboration are examined … collaboration patterns across universities and then use regression analysis to examine the impact of IT exposure on multi …

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Do Inventors Talk to Strangers? On Proximity and Collaborative Knowledge Creation

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Nathan, Max; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …

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Division of Labour and Directed Production

Ratto, Marisa; Schnedler, Wendelin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We examine a situation where efforts on different tasks positively affect production but are not separately verifiable and where the manager (principal) and the worker (agent) have different ideas about how production should be carried out: agents prefer a less efficient way of production. We...

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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...

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Screening, Competition, and Job Design: Economic Origins of Good Jobs

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These "high-performance work systems" are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show...

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R&D and Employment: Some Evidence from European Microdata

Bogliacino, Francesco; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

. However, the positive and significant impact of R&D expenditures on employment is detectable in services and high …

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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services

Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU- 15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of servicerelated jobs in total...

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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm’s productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

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