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Intergenerational Transmission of ‘Religious Capital’: Evidence from Spain

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Neuman, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

economic framework of a production function of 'religiosity' where parental inputs serve as factors of production. A sample of …

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The Division of Labour, Worker Organisation, and Technological Change

Borghans, Lex; Weel, Bas ter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from …

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Unemployment Invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis," according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...

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Robots at Work

Graetz, Georg; Michaels, Guy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots' potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their economic effects. In this paper we analyze for the first time the economic impact of industrial robots, using new data on a panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We...

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Die Zukunft der Arbeit und der Wandel der Arbeitswelt

Eichhorst, Werner; Buhlmann, Florian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Die Zukunft der Arbeit wird vom technischen Fortschritt, der Globalisierung, dem demographischen Wandel und institutionellen Veränderungen geprägt. Daraus entwickelt sich in Fortschreibung jüngerer Entwicklungen eine vielfältige Arbeitswelt mit erheblichen Unterschieden der...

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Measuring and Interpreting Trends in the Division of Labour in the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih; Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper introduces indicators about the division of labour to measure and interpret recent trends in the structure of employment in the Netherlands. Changes in the division of labour occur at three different levels: the level of the individual worker, the level of the industry and the spatial...

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Accounting for the Rise of Health Spending and Longevity

Fonseca, Raquel; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Kapteyn, Arie; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We estimate a stochastic life-cycle model of endogenous health spending, asset accumulation and retirement to investigate the causes behind the increase in health spending and longevity in the U.S. over the period 1965-2005. We estimate that technological change and the increase in the...

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The Impact of Globalization and Technology Transfer on Manufacturing Employment and Skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet

Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions. We estimate production functions where firms can change their … examine how it shifts the production technology and changes the productivity and labor outcomes of different types of workers … production function estimates to construct measures of firm level productivity, we find that broadband internet accounts for a …

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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview

Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

the canonical production function framework is challenging, however, because the assignment of tasks to labor and capital …

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