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Deskilling among manufacturing production workers
Kunst, David - 2019
manufacturing since the 1950s. They tended to work in craftsman occupations, and commanded wages even rivaling those of some white … the following decades, and declining relative craftsmen wages and employment have been associated with increasing capital … significant marketable skills. …
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2018 - This version: 31 March 2018
It has been claimed that many workers in modern economies think that their job is socially useless, i.e. that it makes no or a negative contribution to society. However, the evidence so far is mainly anecdotal. We use a representative dataset comprising 100,000 workers from 47 countries at four...
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Firm consolidation and labor market outcomes
Dobbelaere, Sabien; McCormack, Grace; Prinz, Daniel; … - 2022
human capital and workers with skills that are likely already present at acquirers are less likely to be retained. …
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Micro moments database for cross-country analysis of ICT, innovation, and economic outcomes
Bartelsman, Eric J.; Hagsten, Eva; Polder, Michael - 2017
This paper provides technical documentation to a database built up from firm-level sources titled Micro moments database(MMD) that is made available for researchers through Eurostat. The MMD is an internationally harmonized research database of statistical moments collected from linked...
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Ethnic employment gaps of graduates in the Netherlands
Bisschop, Paul; Weel, Bas ter; Zwetsloot, Jelle - 2020
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish, Antillean and Surinamese origin and other (non-)western...
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Optimal linear income taxation and education subsidies under skill-biased technical change
Jacobs, Bas; Thuemmel, Uwe - 2020
This paper studies how linear tax and education policy should optimally respond to skill-biased technical change (SBTC). SBTC affects optimal taxes and subsidies by changing i) direct distributional benefits, ii) indirect redistributional effects due to wage-(de)compression, and iii) education...
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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management
Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2008
The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy's best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a...
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Aggregate real wages : macro fluctuations and micro drivers
Daly, Mary C.; Hobijn, Bart; Wiles, Theodore S. - 2011
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The effect of immigration on native earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000
wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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Estimating the skill bias in agglomeration externalities and social returns to education : evidence from Dutch matched worker-firm micro-data
Groot, Stefan P. T.; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2014
density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … density on the productivity of different types of workers. This paper shows that there is substantial heterogeneity in the … relationship between density and productivity for workers with different types of education. Apart from estimating the impact of …
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