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Labour-saving automation and occupational exposure : a text-similarity measure
Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2021
This paper represents one of the first attempts at building a direct measure of occupational exposure to robotic labour-saving technologies. After identifying robotic and LS robotic patents retrieved by Montobbio et al. (2022), the underlying 4-digit CPC definitions are employed in order to...
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Long live the vacancy
Häfke, Christian; Reiter, Michael - 2020
joint unemployment and vacancy dynamics. We show conditions for constrained efficiency and discuss important implications of …
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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage : from pre-crisis to crisis and recovery
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - 2021
During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that … hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum … wage on the probability of making a transition into and out of unemployment. We use micro-level data from the Greek Labour …
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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The diffusion of digital skills across EU regions : structural drivers and polarization dynamics
Caravella, Serenella; Cirillo, Valeria; Crespi, Francesco; … - 2022
The digital transformation is an important driver of long-run productivity growth and, as such, it has the potential to promote a more inclusive and sustainable growth. However, digital capabilities, crucial to develop and govern new digital technologies, are unevenly distributed across European...
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More than a she-recession : long-term feminization and short-term pandemic effects
Nelli, Linnea; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2023
duration, depth and diffusion of the Covid-19 crisis on job losses, structural unemployment and inactivity. We find that the …
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Unobserved worker quality and inter-industry wage differentials
Ge, Suqin; Macieira, João - 2020
This study quantitatively assesses two alternative explanations for inter-industry wage differentials: worker heterogeneity in the formof unobserved quality and firmheterogeneity in the form of a firm's willingness to pay (WTP) for workers' productive attributes. We develop an empirical hedonic...
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Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2021
This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels through which migration affects economic inequality between...
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The productivity impact of business mobility : international evidence
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment
Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021
the local unemployment rate when more refugees arrive. The dynamic panel data estimates are robust to various sensitivity …
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