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| Title: | | Workers' skill level and information technology: evidence from German service firms  |
| Authors: | | Falk, Martin Seim, Katja |
| Issue Date: | | 1999 |
| Series/Report no.: | | ZEW Discussion Papers 99-14 |
| Abstract: | | This paperanalyses the link between human capitaland information technology(IT ) in the service production process. The analysis is based on 1994 cross-sectional data for 1929 German. Firms drawn from the first wave of the Mannheim Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skillstructure. The empirical evidence indicates that firms with a higher IT investment to sales ratio employ a larger fraction of high-skilled workers. The relationship between IT investment and medium-skilled labour is rather weak while the unskilled labourshare is negatively related to the IT investment to sales ratio. U sing a translog production function to assess the productivity of different input factors, we find that human and informationcapital provide the most powerful contributions to output in the service sector. |
| Subjects: | | Information technology skills labour demand service sector |
| JEL: | | L8 O33 J23 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des ZEW ZEW Discussion Papers
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