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Skill Complementarity in Production Technology : New Empirical Evidence and Implications

Stoyanov, Andrey - 2019

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

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Return of the Solow Paradox? It, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity : Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Mahy, Benoit - 2015

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

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Technological Change, Firm Heterogeneity and Wage Inequality

Cortes, Guido Matias; Lerche, Adrian; Schönberg, Uta; … - 2023

We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...

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Occupational Tasks and Changes in the Wage Structure

Firpo, Sergio - 2011

wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and within occupations, which are well captured by tasks measures …

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The 'appropriate technology' explanation of productivity growth differentials : an empirical approach

Los, Bart; Timmer, Marcel - In: Journal of development economics 77 (2005) 2, pp. 517-531

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Education technologies, wages and technological progress

Rigolini, Jamele - In: Journal of development economics 75 (2004) 1, pp. 55-77

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Inequality and growth: the dual role of human capital in development

Eicher, Theo S.; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia - In: Journal of development economics 66 (2001) 1, pp. 173-197

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Child labor and coordination failures

Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Pallage, Stéphane - In: Journal of development economics 65 (2001) 2, pp. 469-476

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