Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies
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- Meyer, Jenny, 2008. "Older Workers and the Adoption of New Technologies," ZEW Discussion Papers 07-050 [rev.], ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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Keywords
age structure of the workforce; adoption of new technologies; ICT intensive services;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2007-11-03 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-ICT-2007-11-03 (Information and Communication Technologies)
- NEP-INO-2007-11-03 (Innovation)
- NEP-KNM-2007-11-03 (Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy)
- NEP-LAB-2007-11-03 (Labour Economics)
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