variety of applications. For instance, the automation of low-complexity tasks tends to reinforce labor market segmentation …. Moreover, comparatively small changes in a task's complexity, via new products, processes or automation, may have either a …

Work complexity can be an important factor contributing to the observed employment and wage developments. Using German … data, we find that it increased substantially between 1986 and 2012. Work complexity was higher for high-educated employees … in the past but differences have leveled out in 2012 due to a steeper increase in complexity among lower educated …

turnout at 60.52% of the registered voters. Ireland thus became the first country in the world to legalise same sex marriage …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …