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Unemployment varies substantially over time and across subgroups of the labour market. Worker flows among labour market … states act as key determinants of this variation. We examine how the structure of unemployment across groups and its cyclical … over the last 35 years, we decompose unemployment variation into parts accounted for by changes in rates of job loss, job …
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This paper argues that skill-biased technical change has some deficiencies as a hypothesis about the impact of technology on the labor market and that a more nuanced view recently proposed by Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003) is a more accurate description. The difference between the two hypotheses...
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There is little doubt that technology has had the most profound effect on altering the tasks that wehumans do in our jobs. Economists have long speculated on how technical change affects boththe absolute demand for labour as a whole and the relative demands for different types of labour.In...
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, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …
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