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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers

Behaghel, Luc - 2011

We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...

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Technological and Organizational Changes, and Labor Flows : Evidence on French Establishments

Askenazy, Philippe; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of organizational and technological changes on job stability of different occupational categories in France. We conduct an empirical analysis in which we make extensive use of a unique data set on a representative sample of French establishments. Working with...

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Technological and Organizational Change and the Careers of Workers

Battisti, Michele; Dustmann, Christian; Schönberg, Uta - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of technological and organizational change (T&O) on jobs and workers. We show that although T&O reduces firm demand for routine relative to abstract task-based jobs, affected workers do not face higher probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth...

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Changes in China's Wage Structure

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...

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Technology and the Demand for Skill : An Analysis of Within and Between Firm Differences

Abowd, John M.; Haltiwanger, John; Lane, Julia; … - 2021

We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated employer-employee data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program infrastructure files spanning two Economic Censuses (1992 and 1997). We...

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Migration and Cultural Change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin - 2022

and cultural diffusion mechanisms. We use the World Value Survey for 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural …

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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?

Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2012

In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...

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The Effect of Firm-Level Investment on Inequality and Poverty Around the World

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan; Watson, Ethan; Yildiz, Serhat - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of firm-level investment on the levels of income inequality and poverty. Using a … sample of firms from 87 countries for the period from 1979 to 2018, we document that firm-level investment is negatively … investment proxies, empirical model specifications, and a variety of country-level controls. Further evidence shows that firm …

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

Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019

The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...

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The Firm Size Distribution Across Countries and Skill-Biased Change in Entrepreneurial Technology

Poschke, Markus - 2014

How and why does the firm size distribution differ across countries? Using two datasets covering more than 30 countries, this paper documents that several features of the firm size distribution are strongly associated with income per capita: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small...

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