Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 890
Cover Image
Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
In recent decades, many industrialized economies have witnessed a pattern of job polarization. While shifts in labor demand, namely routinization or offshoring, constitute conventional explanations for job polarization, there is little research on whether shifts in labor supply along the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255962
Cover Image
Multitasking and wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009765032
Cover Image
Trade, inequality and distribution-neutral fiscal policy : an elementary framework
Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei - 2017
Theoretical discussion on compensating mechanisms involving the Pareto criterion that address inequality rather than absolute welfare is non-existent in trade literature. In a simple HOS model we consider tax-transfer policies that keep the pre-trade degree of inequality unchanged between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654520
Cover Image
Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599109
Cover Image
Education, lack of complementary investment and underemployment in an open economy
Marjit, Sugata; Ahuja, Rashmi; Pandey, Abhilasha - 2021
In many developing economies rate of unemployment is increasing with skill accumulation and thereby leading to underemployment. Our paper offers to look at skill formation as a demand side problem not as a traditional supply side problem and also how skill formation or education affects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612938
Cover Image
Skills or degree? : the rise of skill-based hiring for AI and green jobs
Ehlinger, Eugenia Gonzalez; Stephany, Fabian - 2023
have started focusing on individual skills rather than on formal qualifications in their recruiting. By analysing a large … university education for AI roles declined by 23%, while AI roles advertise five times as many skills as job postings on average … positions the educational premium persists. In contrast, AI skills have a wage premium of 16%, similar to having a PhD (17 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014443842
Cover Image
Which ladder to climb? : wages of workers by job, plant, and education
Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2018
Wages grow but also become more unequal as workers age. Using German administrative data, we largely attribute both life-cycle facts to one driving force: some workers progress in hierarchy to jobs with more responsibility, complexity, and independence. In short, they climb the career ladder....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902849
Cover Image
The effect of unfair chances and gender discrimination on labor supply
Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154293
Cover Image
Getting lucky : the long-term consequences of exam luck
Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric; Willage, Barton; Willén, … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of exam luck on individuals’ education and labor market success. We leverage unique features of the Norwegian education system that produce random variation in the content of the exams taken by students at the end of high school. Lucky students take exams in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817815
Cover Image
How high can you climb? : earnings inequality and intragenerational earnings mobility in a developing country : evidence from Thai tax returns
Athiphat Muthitacharoen; Trongwut Burong - 2023
This paper investigates inequality and intragenerational economic mobility in a developing country with large inequality. Understanding economic mobility is important because it shapes our perception of inequality. Despite its significance, evidence on intragenerational mobility, especially that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013484931