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The Impact of Digital Technologies on Worker Tasks : Do Labor Policies Matter?
Almeida, Rita - 2018
Between 1999 and 2006, Brazilian cities experienced strong growth in the provision of internet services, driven in part by the privatization of the telecommunications industry. A main concern of policymakers is that digital technology replaces routine, manual tasks, displacing lower-skilled...
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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany
Becker, Sascha O. - 2015
This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...
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Multitasking and Wages
Goerlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2021
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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The Compositional Effect of Rigorous Teacher Evaluation on Workforce Quality
Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016
Improving public sector workforce quality is challenging in sectors such as education where worker productivity is difficult to assess and manager incentives are muted by political and bureaucratic constraints. In this paper, we study how providing information to principals about teacher...
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The Effects of Student Composition on Teacher Turnover : Evidence from an Admission Reform
Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2016
This paper examines the effects of student ability on teacher turnover using data from Stockholm high schools and an admission reform that led to the exogenous reshuffling of pupils. The results indicate that a 10-percentile-point increase in student credentials decreases the probability of a...
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Job Search, Human Capital and Wage Inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labor market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...
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Are Short-Lived Jobs Stepping Stones to Long-Lasting Jobs?
Cockx, Bart - 2009
This paper assesses whether short-lived jobs (lasting one quarter or less and involuntarily ending in unemployment) are stepping stones to long-lasting jobs (enduring one year or more) for Belgian long-term unemployed school-leavers. We proceed in two steps. First, we estimate labour market...
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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
common knowledge. Graduates and graduate jobs are matched by tournament. In laissez faire, only the rich can buy enough … some of the rich buy too much education, and some of the graduates have lower ability than some of the non-graduates … the same quality are assigned to graduates with the same education but different ability. Competition among employers will …
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size - The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia; Vuri, Daniela - 2021
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as …
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Stay in School or Start Working? - The Human Capital Investment Decision under Uncertainty and Irreversibility
Bilkic, Natasa; Gries, Thomas; Pilichowski, Margarethe - 2021
As the time of leaving school determines the level of academic achievement this timing decision is central for the human capital investment decision. Real option theory offers a new perspective of the human capital investment decision under uncertainty and irreversibility. Unlike other...
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