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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
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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...
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The division of labour, worker organisation, and technological change
Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2005
The model developed in this paper explains differences in the division of labour across firms as a result of computer technology adoption. We find that changes in the division of labour can result both from reduced production time and from improved communication possibilities. The first shifts...
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Rethinking specialisation and the sexual division of labour in the 21st Century
Siminski, Peter; Yetsenga, Rhiannon - 2020
This paper aims to shed new light on explanations for the sexual division of labour, within a broader examination of within-household specialisation. We propose a set of indices which we believe are the first direct within-couple measures of specialisation. We use these to present a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177760
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The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239274
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Socially useless jobs
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 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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High performance workplace practices and job satisfaction : evidence from Europe
Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor) - 2004
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The times they are a-changin' : organizational change and immigrant employment opportunities in Scandinavia
Rosholm, Michael; Scott, Kirk; Husted, Leif - 2001
This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period … 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process … Sweden and Denmark experienced similar declines in employment prospects between 1985 and 1995 despite quite different …
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Globalization, productivity growth, and labor compensation
Dreger, Christian; Fourné, Marius; Holtemöller, Oliver - 2023
We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...
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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001
Bengtsson, Tommy (contributor); Scott, Kirk (contributor) - 2008
This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...
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