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skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing … countries are experiencing technical change that is skill-biased because skill-biased technologies are becoming relatively … cheaper. Increased skill supply further biases technical change in favor of skilled labor. Free trade induces technology that …
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-group inequality in Poland were very different across skill groups, with much larger increases for highly educated workers …
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This paper presents a simple framework that illustrates the link between skill-based wage differentiation and human … capital acquisition given skill-biased technical progress. The analysis points to the economic costs resulting from labor … market and income redistribution policies that prevent the skill premium from playing its role in fostering human capital …
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We study the economic effects of information technology (IT) adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on IT adoption covering almost three million establishments in the US, we find that technology adoption can partly shield the economy from the impact of the pandemic. In areas where...
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, increasing average years of schooling and reducing inequality of schooling. When dynamic panel estimation techniques are used to …
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particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a … in the UK, with more educated workers taking up fewer high-skill occupations than they did in the past. Our analysis … informs the policy debate over appropriate measures needed to reduce skill mismatches and alleviate labor market transitions …
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estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east … losses, while the latter confirms the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis …
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German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage point decline in the unemployment rate. Our analysis shows that a large part of the decline in unemployment was structural. Micro-founded Phillips curves fit the German data rather...
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Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on …
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inequality among low-skill females. Wage-level cohort effects underpin a nearly 10 percent fall in expected lifetime earnings for … low-skill women born in 1990 relative to those born in 1970 …
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