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There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change over employment in least developed countries (LDCs … affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
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Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job flows and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels. We find that job and worker flows vary by educational...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three … self-employment and formal salaried jobs, suggesting the existence of barriers to this type of mobility or a strong …
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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on the impact of public wage and employment policy changes. A … and in sector wage gaps on the demand side, and the decreasing education premia on the supply side. The increase in …
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This paper is among the firsts to investigate the impact of overeducation and overskilling on workers' wages using a unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey. Overall, the results suggest a wage...
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, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over-education …While the literature on the incidence and wage effects of over-education is substantial, specific results for doctoral … have earned in a job corresponding to their level of education. Using a unique pan-European dataset, we rely on two …
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. This effect is particularly strong for natives with medium level of education. Exploiting the administrative firm data that …
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traditional role of education. We first apply a two-way fixed-effects wage estimation, a' la AKM, to the Italian private sector …
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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