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Technology-skill complementarity in the early phase of industrialization
Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2016
variations in the adoption of steam engines across France, the study establishes that, in contrast to conventional wisdom that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452726
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Diverging patterns of education premium and school attendance in France and the US : a Walrasian view
De la Croix, David (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784198
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925275
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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability
Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - 2012
the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009620939
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232285
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Technological and organizational changes, and labor flows : evidence on French establishments
Askenazy, Philippe (contributor);  … - 2007
occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429628
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Work and television
Corneo, Giacomo - 2001
Evidence from a sample of countries show that people roughly spend as much time watching television as earning their … living. Moreover, television viewing and work hours are positively correlated across countries. A simple model based on … this model the equilibria can be inversely Pareto-ranked by their amount of television viewing. Arguments are offered to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403923
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Television, health, and happiness: a natural experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2021
Watching television is the most time-consuming human activity besides work but its role for individual well-being is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621397
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412072
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The division of labor and the market for organizations
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The paper examines the determinants of the division of labor within firms. It provides an explanation of the pervasive observed changes in work organization away from the traditional functional departments and towards multi-tasking and job rotation. Whereas the existing literature on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415696