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occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a …
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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...
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-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full … computer use and job tasks together explain more than 50 percent of the decrease in the part-time pay penalty. …
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can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical … incorporating computer skills, complementary skills and fixed costs for computer technology usage suggested by the micro literature …. It turns out that fixed costs for computer technology usage explain different patterns of computer adoption and diffusion …
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distribution of computer investment across plants as well as changes in the wage and productivity differentials associated with the … computer investment. …
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in industry computer usage and investment. Moreover, the skills sets possessed by postgraduates and the occupations in … computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …
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An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...
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