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Spatial changes in labour market inequality

Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2013

important features of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations …

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Unconditional and conditional wage polarization in Europe

Naticchioni, Paolo; Ragusa, Giuseppe; Massari, Riccardo - 2014

distribution shows scant signs of polarization in Europe. On the other hand, the effect of technology is more nuanced. At the … industry level, technological changes have an effect on polarization of jobs, but not on polarization of wages. At the … occupations, and we find only mild evidence of wage polarization. Technology affects the lower and upper part of the wage …

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Differences in job de-routinization in OECD countries : evidence from PIAAC

Rica, Sara de la; Gortazar, Lucas - 2016

The aim of the paper is threefold. First, we compute differences on the degree of de-routinization of job contents across a harmonized and hence comparable sample of Anglo-Saxon, many European and even Asian advanced countries. We do so by using very precise information on job contents at the...

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The skill-specific impact of past and projected occupational decline

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2020

Using population-wide Swedish register data on cognitive abilities and productive personality traits, we show that employment growth has been monotonically skill-biased in terms of these general-purpose intellectual skills, despite a simultaneous (polarizing) decline in middle-wage jobs....

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The price of polarization : estimating task prices under routine-biased technical change

Böhm, Michael - 2017

The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that routine task prices should decline compared to abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new...

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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?

Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017

In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...

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Shifts in composition of jobs : upgrading, downgrading or polarization? : the case of Russia 2000-2019

Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeljušnikov, R. I. - 2023

two sub-periods divided by the 2008/9 crisis. The estimates presented in the paper allow the rejection of the polarization …. Apparently, risks of job polarization are likely to be minimal until economic growth is recovered and a movement to the …

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The role of within-occupation task changes in wage development

Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Green, Colin; … - 2022

We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over...

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Work and money : payoffs by ethnic identity and gender

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

or women immigrant workers. -- Ethnosizer ; ethnicity ; ethnic identity ; immigrant assimilation ; integration ; ethnic …

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