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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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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 … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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Skill Variety, Innovation and New Business Formation
Hessels, Jolanda - 2015
that being a generalist does not seem to be important in this regard. Finally, we find that innovation positively moderates …
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The importance of education for the reallocation of labor: Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986 - 2002
Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - 2007
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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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317919
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Interpersonal Styles and Labor Market Outcomes
Borghans, Lex - 2006
This paper develops a framework to understand the role of interpersonal interactions in the labor market including task assignment and wages. Effective interpersonal interactions involve caring, to establish cooperation, and at the same time directness, to communicate in an unambiguous way. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778996
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The Task Content of Occupations
Kramarz, Francis - 2018
This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information about individual workers' tasks from multiple surveys to examine the impact of a twofold rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906467
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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2009
aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765086
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
variation in RTI across countries. Computer use, better education, and higher literacy skills are related to lower RTI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142