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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index : A New Employment Series for the US, Canada, and the UK

Akcigit, Ufuk; Chhina, Raman; Cilasun, Seyit Mümin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Small and young businesses are essential for job creation, innovation, and economic growth. Even most of the superstar firms start their business life small and then grow over time. Small firms have less internal resources, which makes them more fragile and sensitive to macroeconomic conditions....

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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe

Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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Skill Heterogeneity and Aggregate Labor Market Dynamics

Grigsby, John R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies aggregate labor market dynamics when workers have heterogeneous skills for tasks which are subject to non-uniform labor demand shocks. When workers have different skills, movements in aggregate wages partly reflect a reallocation of different workers across tasks and into...

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) is a new open-access, cross- country database that contains a wide range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully...

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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions

Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately …

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Meritocracy across Countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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Fractional integration and the dynamics of UK unemployment

Gil-Alaña, Luis A. (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource], rev

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Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation

Mincer, Jacob - 2000

We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off … by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same … differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment …

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Changes in Unemployment and Wage Inequality : An Alternative Theory and Some Evidence

Acemoglu, Daron - 1998

unemployment rates for both groups. The paper provides some evidence that there has been a change in the composition of jobs in the …

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