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Innovation and the labor market : theory, evidence and challenges
Corrocher, Nicoletta; Moschella, Daniele; Staccioli, Jacopo - 2023
This paper deals with the complex relationship between innovation and the labor market, analyzing the impact of new technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the available empirical studies, novel evidence is...
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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view
Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020
) unemployment duration due to higher (lower) match selectivity. We find empirical support for this implication in a dataset covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222391
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Minimum wages, wage dispersion and financial constraints in firms
Arabzadeh, Hamzeh; Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; … - 2023
This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We...
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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones model
Pflüger, Michael - 2001
The deterioration of the income and employment position of unskilled workers in the OECD area since the 1980s is a well-documented fact. The debate about the causes of this development is dominated by two competing hypotheses, "North-South Trade" or "globalisation" and technological progress....
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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The economics of gender-specific minimum wage legislation
Marchingiglio, Riccardo; Poyker, Michael - 2024
Using full count U.S. census data, we study the impact of early 20th-century state-industry-specific minimum wage laws that primarily targeted female employees. Our triple-difference estimates suggest a null impact of the minimum wage laws, potentially reflecting disemployment effects and the...
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Wage flexibility in a unionized economy with stable wage dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study … changes in regional unemployment. Accounting for the fluctuations in composition of the employees is important for the … estimated elasticity of wages. Wage adjustments are larger for employees with high unemployment risk and for new hires entering …
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The dynamics of the national minimum wage : transitions between different labour market states
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2005
below the NMW, above the NMW, unemployment and inactivity, using a multinomial logit approach. It appears that for many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003035516
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Multiple equilibria and minimum wages in labor markets with informational frictions and heterogeneous production technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Robots and unions : the moderating effect of organised labour on technological unemployment
Haapanala, Henri; Marx, Ive; Parolin, Zachary - 2022
We analyse the moderating effect of trade unions on industrial employment and unemployment in countries facing exposure … the industry sector employment of young and low-educated workers. We also show that the unemployment rates for low … countries, low-educated unemployment declines with robot exposure but from a higher starting point. Our results point to unions …
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