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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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Demography, capital accumulation and growth
Stehrer, Robert; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2022
Europe will be challenged by demographic changes over the next few decades, even under favourable assumptions about fertility and migration, but the economic effects are not yet fully understood. This paper studies the effects of population ageing on economic growth, capital deepening and...
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To what extent can urbanisation mitigate the negative impact of population ageing in China?
García Herrero, Alicia; Xu, Jianwei - 2023
into account the impact of population aging on labour productivity. China’s fast move towards robotisation and artificial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466599
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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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Outside options drive wage inequalities in continuing jobs : evidence from a natural experiment
Lukesch, Veronika; Zwick, Thomas - 2021
entropy matching on the basis of a large representative administrative linked employer-employee panel data set to guarantee …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421893
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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work Across Countries
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2013
Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090626
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Health and Work at Older Ages : Using Mortality to Assess the Capacity to Work across Countries
Milligan, Kevin S. - 2012
Health and longevity have increased substantially over the last 50 years, yet the labor force participation of older men has declined in most developed countries. We use mortality as a measure of health to assess the capacity to work at older ages in 12 OECD countries. For a given level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460431
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Employers' skills requirements in the Austrian labour market : on the relative importance of ICT, cognitive and non-cognitive skills over the past 15 years
Leitner, Sandra M.; Reiter, Oliver - 2020
This paper analyses job advertisements to identify the particular skills, abilities and characteristics that are in demand on the Austrian labour market. It takes a novel approach and uses information extracted from over 1.5 million job advertisements over the past 15 years from Austria's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391616
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998
This paper examines whether the sector bias of skill-biased technical change (sbtc) explains changing skill premia within countries in recent decades. First, using a two-factor, two-sector, two-country model we demonstrate that in many cases it is the sector bias of sbtc that determines sbtc's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472244
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Jobs. Jobs? Jobs! : Orientierungshilfen für den Weg zu mehr Beschäftigung
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 2000
Die Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit genießt oberste wirtschaftspolitische Priorität - dieser Feststellung wird kaum jemand widersprechen wollen. Eher scheiden sich die Geister an der Frage nach dem "wirklichen" quantitativen Ausmaß der Unterbeschäftigung, ihren Ursachen und welche...
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