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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019

-skill occupations. We estimate the determinants of workers' RTI as a function of technology (computer use), globalization …. Globalization (as measured by sector foreign value-added share) increases RTI in poorer countries but reduces RTI in richer … globalization also important. Technology contributes the most to the differences in RTI among workers in high-skilled occupations …

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Rhineland Exit?

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Teulings, Coen - 2021

employs them but from the value of their own human capital. In such a world, global trade in corporate control, global …

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011

most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …

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Labor Market Policy : A Comparative View on the Costs and Benefits of Labor Market Flexibility

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2010

I review theories and evidence on wage-setting institutions and labor market policies in an international comparative context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and active labor market policies...

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Comparing Real Wage Rates

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012

A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...

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The Role of Institutions and Firm Heterogeneity for Labour Market Adjustment : Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence

Gal, Peter N. - 2013

This paper investigates the role of policies and institutions for aggregate labour market dynamics during the recent financial crisis using firm-level data. First, it provides comparable estimates on firm-level labor adjustment by country, industry and firm size. Second, using variance...

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Comparing Inequality Aversion Across Countries When Labor Supply Responses Differ

Bargain, Olivier - 2013

We analyze to which extent social inequality aversion differs across nations when controlling for actual country differences in labor supply responses. Towards this aim, we estimate labor supply elasticities at both extensive and intensive margins for 17 EU countries and the US. Using the same...

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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Cervellati, Matteo - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity : The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm-level) policy distortions on aggregate outcomes. On the one hand, a growing body of empirical research has been relating cross-country differences in key economic outcomes, such...

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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19

Belot, Michele - 2020

This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, the UK and the four largest states in the US. The information collected relates to work and living situations, income, behavior (such as social-distancing, hand-washing...

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