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Challenges of Nordic labour markets : a polarization of working life?
Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lundborg, Per; Nilsen, … - 2011
Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in 'middling' occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...
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Occupational structure in Egypt in 1848 - 1996
Saleh, Mohamed - 2015
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Occupational change on the dualised Swedish labour market
Berglund, Tomas; Håkansson, Kristina; Isidorsson, Tommy - In: Economic and industrial democracy 43 (2022) 2, pp. 918-942
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Creating USAGE-OCC : a CGE model of the U.S. with a disaggregated occupational dimension
Dixon, Peter B.; Rimmer, Maureen T. - 2022
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 1996
Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors like minimum wages and trade unions prevent downward wage adjustments. Some economists have argued that this insight explains the contrast between the United States, where real...
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Changes in the Relative Structure of Wages and Employment : A Comparison of the United States, Canada, and France
Card, David - 2010
Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors like minimum wages and trade unions prevent downward wage adjustments. Some economists have argued that this insight explains the contrast between the United States, where real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141509
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SOC(HE)-Italy : a classification for graduate occupations
Cattani, Luca; Purcell, Kate; Elias, Peter - 2014
This paper presents an application to the Italian labour force of the British SOC(HE)2010 classification for graduate occupations, thereby creating a statistical tool for exploration of the Italian graduate labour market. In order to achieve this goal, the classification is replicated, using...
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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic activity has since long been a major topic in the analysis of factors determining economic growth. In this paper we analyze whether a more specialized or a more diverse skill...
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Soziodemographische Muster der Qualifikationsstruktur von Erwerbstätigkeit und Unterbeschäftigung
Lott, Margit - 2010
Der formale Berufsabschluss spielt in Deutschland für die aktive Teilhabe am Erwerbsleben eine entscheidende Rolle …. Personen ohne Berufsaubildung tragen ein deutlich größeres Risiko arbeitslos zu werden, ihre Chancen am Arbeitsmarkt … hochqualifizierte Fachkräfte adäquat zu besetzen. Die Beziehungen zwischen beruflicher Qualifikation und Arbeitsmarkt sind vielfältig …
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Human capital diversity and product innovation : a micro-level analysis
Söllner, René - 2010
The paper investigates the relationship between human capital diversity measured in terms of occupational diversity and a firm's likelihood to innovate. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee panel dataset of German firms over the period 1998 to 2007. Despite notable...
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