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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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impact of employment protection laws (EPL) on job content. Economic theories predict that stricter protection increases … became larger when I did not control for industry, occupation, government employment, and human capital variables including …
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technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the …
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In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead … employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if product demand is inelastic. A …, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office. We estimate Marshallian type demand …
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In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and … its strength and weakness, discuss its connections with theory, and draw out potential policy implications of its findings …. Finally we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement. We highlight the recent …
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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According to the compensation theory, market forces should assure a complete compensation of the initial labour …
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, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment …
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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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