标题：Employee Education, Information and Communication Technology, Workplace Organization and Trade: A Comparative Analysis of Greek and Swiss Enterprises
摘要：This paper aims at investigating empirically at the firm level the effect of the use of modern
information and communication technologies (ICT), and also of two other factors, the
adoption of new forms of workplace organization and trade (export) activities, on the demand
for employees with different levels of (vocational) education. The study is based on firm-level
data collected through a common questionnaire from firms’ samples of similar composition
(concerning firm sizes and industries) in Greece and Switzerland; from these data
econometric models of similar specification have been constructed for both countries. The
results of multivariate analysis show that the intensive use of ICT correlates positively with
the employment shares of high-educated personnel and negatively with the ones of the low-
educated personnel. These findings are consistent with the hypothesis of ‘skill-biased
technical change’. Further, the intensive use of “employee voice”-oriented organizational
practices correlates positively with the employment shares of high-educated employees in
both countries, and also negatively with the employment share of low-educated ones only for
the Swiss firms. The results for the “work design” organizational practices are more
ambiguous. Thus, there is only partial confirmation of the hypothesis of skilled-biased
organizational change. Finally, we found some evidence in favour of the trade effect (export
activities) only for the Swiss firms. Our results show both similarities and differences in the
above aspects between Greece and Switzerland and indicate that national context
characteristics affect the relationship of the demand for employees with different levels of
(vocational) education with ICT use, adoption of new forms of workplace organization and
trade.
关键词：labour demand, labour skills, information technology, workplace organization.
