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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers
Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020
transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows … unemployment risk, through a Routine Task Index (RTI) calculated on Italian data. Results indicate that mismatched workers are at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158785
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Educational and skills mismatches : unravelling their effects on wages across Europe
Cultrera, Loredana; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2022
unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041426
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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017
affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109320
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Two and a half million Syrian refugees, skill mix and capital intensity
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2018
We investigate how the rapid increase in the low-skilled labor supply induced by the inflow of 2.5 million Syrian refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the unexpected nature of the refugee inflow, location choice of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131237
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Inequality and occupational change in times of Revolution : the Tunisian perspective
Marouani, Mohamed Ali; Phuong Minh Le - 2022
The public sector plays a large role in many developing economies, but its effect on earnings inequality dynamics has not been widely studied. In this paper, we investigate the earnings inequality trends and their determinants in the decades before and after the Tunisian Revolution, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041425
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The over-education wage penalty among PhD holders : a European perspective
Rycx, François; Santosuosso, Giulia; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2022
, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013284869
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Background wage premia, beyond education : firm sorting and unobserved abilities
Bonacini, Luca; Patriarca, Fabrizio; Santoni, Edoardo - 2024
This paper investigates the relationship between intergenerational inequality and differences in pay policies among firms. We examine whether the effects of parental background in firm selection contribute to the persistence of income inequality across generations, and particularly how this can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637312
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The short-term effect of COVID-19 on self-employed workers in Canada
Beland, Louis-Philippe; Fakorede, Oluwatobi; Mikola, Derek - 2020
Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239333
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The dynamics of labour market polarization in Chile : an analysis of the link between technical change and informality
Delaporte, Isaure; Peña, Werner - 2023
in Chile is mostly due to a decrease in the in ow transition rate from unemployment as well as an increase in the out ow … transition rates to unemployment and informality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280975
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Navigating the precarious path : understanding the dualisation of the Italian labour market through the lens of involuntary part-time employment
Cuccu, Liliana; Royuela, Vicente; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2024
This paper investigates the surge in Involuntary Part-Time (IPT) employment in Italy from 2004 to 2019, exploring its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464637