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Has job polarization squeezed the middle class? Evidence from the allocation of talents
Boehm, Michael J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
of employment in middle-skill production and clerical occupations - so-called job polarization. I study whether job … occupation-specific skill prices. In line with polarization, I find that a one percentage point higher propensity to enter high …- (low-) as opposed to middle-skill occupations is associated with a .29 (.70) percent increase in expected wages over time …
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The effect of trade liberalization on informality and wages: evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746201
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Private sector employment growth, 1998-2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces
Bryson, Alex; Nurmi, Satu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
Using nationally representative panel data for British private sector workplaces this paper points to the importance of distinguishing between workplace and firm size when analysing employment growth, and finds that the factors associated with growth differ markedly between single independent...
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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption
Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746029
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Use IT or lose IT?: the impact of computers on earnings
Dolton, Peter; Makepeace, Gerry; Robinson, Helen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The extent to which the impact of computer skills depends on how computers are used is investigated using British data from an establishment survey, cohort studies and the European E-Living survey. We examine the importance of activity and frequency of use in these various data sources. We find...
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Sinking the blues: the impact of shop closing hours on labor and product markets
Goos, Maarten - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
There is a growing consensus among economists that extending shop opening hours creates jobs. While this is probably true in deregulating industries, this paper argues there are some deficiencies in the existing hypotheses about how exactly deregulation affects employment. First, this paper...
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Labor market institutions, wages and investment
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Labor market institutions, via their effect on the wage structure, affect the investment decisions of firms in labor markets with frictions. This observation helps explain rising wage inequality in the US, but a relatively stable wage structure in Europe in the 1980s. These different trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884716
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745495
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The effect of trade on the demand for skill - evidence from the interstate highway system
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
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Rise of the machines: the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
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