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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technological Change.
Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005780378
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The Multi-Dimensional Nature of Labor Demand and Skill-Biased Technical Change
Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645353
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The Effect of Offshoring on Labor Demand: Evidence from Sweden
Ekholm, Karolina; Hakkala, Katariina - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2005
We analyze the effects of offshoring of intermediate input production on labor demand in Sweden, distinguishing between … offshoring -- in particular to low-income countries -- tends to shift labor demand away from workers with an intermediate level … of education. Offshoring to high-income countries, which is the largest component of overall offshoring, does not have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645415
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and toward multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082494
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Parallel Development? Productivity Growth Following Electrification and the ICT Revolution
Edquist, Harald - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper investigates labor productivity growth and the contribution to labor productivity growth in Swedish manufacturing during electrification and the ICT revolution. The paper distinguishes between technology-producing, intensive and less intensive technology-using industries during these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645326
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The Division of Labor and the Market for Organizations.
Lindbeck, A.; Snower, D.J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670117
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Implications of skilled-biased technological change:international evidence.
BERMAN Eli,BOUND John, MACHIN Stephen - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
Demand for less skill decreased. They argue that pervasive skill biased technological change rather than increased trade with developing world is the principal culprit.The pervasiveness of this technological change is important because:1)immediate and testable implication of technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639331
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Income Distribution and labour Market Discrimination : A Case Study of Namibia.
Ekstrom, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639319
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Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities
Hakkala, Katariina; Heyman, Fredrik; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
The growing number of cross-border acquisitions has in many countries raised concerns about labor demand consequences. In this study, we use detailed firm level data to examine how increased internationalization and multinational activity affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207058
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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Recent theoretical analysis suggests that a reduction in the cost of exporting increases the degree of assortative matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542070