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 …

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 …

of the paper, the focus will be moved to the possible consequences of this road to catching-up in terms of employment and …

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 …

We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production …

This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …

We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German … employment effects for the least routine-task intensive occupations and for young workers, the latter being better at adapting to … change. An event-study analysis for robot adoption confirms both predictions. We do not find decreasing employment for any …

Previous studies of labor market outcomes such as employment and wages have mostly been limited to investigating the … estimating the joint effects of formal schooling, literacy and numeracy skills, and adult literacy programs on employment and … wage outcomes. Wage and employment status equations are estimated jointly, allowing employment status to be endogenous …

Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of …) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and 2013. Our main finding is that the substantial decrease in employment … changing individual employment rates …