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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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Evolution of the East German wage structure
Brüll, Eduard; Gathmann, Christina - 2020
We analyze the evolution of the wage structure in East Germany over the past two decades and compare it to West Germany. Both regions experienced a rise in wage inequality between 1995 and 2009 with wage dispersion in East Germany exceeding West Germany, esp. at the top. We also show that wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387849
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082604
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Automation and polarization
Acemoglu, Daron; Löbbing, Jonas - 2023
skill premium above a skill threshold and reduces the skill premium below this threshold. Moreover, automation tends to … increases in capital productivity ultimately induce a transition to low-skill automation and qualitatively alter the effects of … automation - thereafter inducing monotone increases in skill premia rather than wage polarization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496402
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Social inequalities in Europe : facing the challenge
Allmendinger, Jutta; Driesch, Ellen von den - 2014
This discussion paper describes the extent of social inequalities both within and between the countries of the European Union. In the first three chapters we address the micro level of individual life courses: education, employment and income. The following chapters analyse the societal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430026
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Technological change and skill obsolescence : the case of German apprenticeship training
Blechinger, Doris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 1996
The paper analyses the applicability of vocational training and the earnings of apprentices using survey data from West Germany in 1979, 1985/86 and 1991/92. The applicability has decreased remarkably between 1979 and 1991/92. The objective of the analysis is a survey-data-based assessment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620781
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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
, this paper presents empirical evidence that technological skill bias is also present for business related services, an … five different skill groups. The micro-level data also allow the analysis of shifting employment patterns for a single … economic unit. Ordered probit models are utilized to study the determinants of skill shifts in business related services. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621722
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The demand of heterogeneous labour in Germany
Falk, Martin; Koebel, Bertrand M. - 1997
In this paper, four commonly provided explanations for the shift in labour demand for different skill groups are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622045
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Firm responses to high-speed internet
Steimer, Henrike - 2020
Does access to the broadband internet stimulate firm growth? In this paper, I analyze within-firm growth of established firms caused by the access to faster internet using geocoded social-security data. I identify firm responses to the access to the first generation of broadband internet and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295680
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Atypische Beschäftigung in Europa 1996 - 2009
Schmeißer, Claudia; Stuth, Stefan; Behrend, Clara; … - 2012
Um die Wirkung atypischer Beschäftigungsverhältnisse auf Struktur und Ausmaß sozialer Ungleichheit abschätzen zu können, zeichnet das vorliegende Discussion Paper für 20 europäische Länder nach, wie sich atypische Beschäftigung im Vergleich zu regulären Beschäftigungsverhältnissen...
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