infonet-economy

Decentralised systems made of autonomous devices and software are gaining more and more interest. These autonomous el ements usually do not know each other in advance and act without any central control. They thus form a society of devices and software, and as such need: basic interaction mechanisms for understanding each other and a social infrastructure supporting interactions...

Several social-economical developments, like the ageing society, stimulate the use of ICT applications for mobile healthcare (e.g., tele-monitoring). To support novel m-health applications, the consequences of developing these applications should be considered in the scope of a comprehensive architecture. Additionally, contextual information plays an important role for personalised...

The emergence of 3G networks gives rise to new mobile services in many different areas of our daily life. Examples of demanding mobile services are mobile-healthcare (i.e. m-health) services allowing the continuous monitoring of a patient's vital signs. However, a prerequisite for the successful deployment of m-health services are appropriate performance characteristics of...

We examine the relationship between the supply of skilled labor, technological change and relative wages. In accounting for the role of skilled labor in both production activities and productivity- enhancing "support" activities we derive the following results. First, an increase in the supply of skilled labor raises the employment share of non-production labor within firms...

The consequences of international outsourcing in traditional models of trade are already well understood. However, with regard to empirical research there seem to be still some important shortcomings. Empirical studies on the labor market effects of outsourcing are mainly based on the same techniques that have been used for years. In terms of the adopted econometric specifications,...

This paper investigates the determinants of inter-firm cooperation in
research and development (R&D). We analyse the impact of structural and firm
specific characteristics, market performance, access to resources and managerial
techniques on different types of inter-firm R&D cooperation. Based on a survey
of 886 enterprises in manufacturing and...