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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 … innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid integration of intermittent … renewables, and human capital, to develop the skills workers need for a low-carbon economy. We document recent trends in energy …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Mausumi - 2019
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. Empirical verification using a VAR regression model in the context of … immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap. …
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Skill, innovation and wage inequality : can immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018 - This Draft May 2018
that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … embedded in talented immigrants targeted for innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862868
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Skilled immigration, task allocation and the innovation of firms
Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …. Through this channel, greater innovation is the result of productivity gains from specialization. …
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Finance, talent allocation, and growth
D'Acunto, Francesco; Frésard, Laurent - 2018
The growing finance wage premium is related to a modest net reallocation of skilled workers from non-finance sectors into finance in a broad sample of 24 countries over 35 years. The reallocation is higher when the finance wage premium grows faster than the contribution of the financial sector...
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Techies and firm level productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …
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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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