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IT shields : technology adoption and economic resilience during the Covid-19 pandemic
Pierri, Nicola; Timmer, Yannick - 2020
We study the economic effects of information technology (IT) adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on IT adoption covering almost three million establishments in the US, we find that technology adoption can partly shield the economy from the impact of the pandemic. In areas where...
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Market integration, wage concentration, and the cost and volume of traded machines
Edwards, Terence Huw; Perroni, Carlo - 2014
We investigate the theoretical relationship between wage concentration and international market integration. Access to imported varieties lowers the cost of intermediate inputs (“machines”) used to carry out production tasks, causing workers with different comparative abilities to be sorted...
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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...
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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...
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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers
Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, Alexander - 2021
This paper brings together the modern literatures on monopsony power and labor unions by empirically examining the effects of unionization on the dynamics of worker earnings across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting tax reforms to union due deductions as exogenous shocks to...
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Is there job polarization in developing economies? : a review and outlook
Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mathew, Nanditha; Mohnen, Pierre A. - 2021
This paper analyses the evidence of job polarization in developing countries. We carry out an extensive review of the existing empirical literature and examine the primary data sources and measures of routine intensity. The synthesis of results suggests that job polarization in emerging...
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The ability gradient in bunching
Bastani, Spencer; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020
We analyze the relationship between cognitive ability and bunching in the context of a large and salient kink point of the Swedish income tax schedule. Using population-wide register data from the Swedish military enlistment and administrative tax records, we find that high-ability individuals...
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The impact of digital technologies on worker tasks : do labor policies matter?
Almeida, Rita; Corseuil, Carlos H. L.; Poole, Jennifer P. - 2017
workforce and fully benefiting from technology adoption. We show that digital technology adoption shifted the demand for skills …
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Exposure to intimate partner violence and children's dynamic skill accumulation : evidence from a UK longitudinal study
Anderberg, Dan; Moroni, Gloria - 2020
-emotional skills we find that exposure during pre-school years has a quantitatively important negative effect on socio-emotional skills … among toddlers and negatively affects cognitive and social skills after age three. The estimated impact on cognitive … development is consistent with measures of cognitive skills based on school-based tests. …
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The next wave of energy innovation : which technologies? Which skills?
Popp, David; Vona, Francesco; Grégoire-Zawilski, Myriam; … - 2022
argue that developing complementary technologies and skills must feature prominently in the next wave of low-carbon energy … renewables, and human capital, to develop the skills workers need for a low-carbon economy. We document recent trends in energy … informs policy and research on the worker skills needed for the energy transition. …
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