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Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Ma, Hong - 2022

China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in...

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Technological Progress, Occupational Structure and Gender Gaps in the German Labour Market

Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2022

We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...

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The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap : An Equilibrium Model

Bhalotra, Sonia; Fernández, Manuel; Wang, Fan - 2022

We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...

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Technical Change and Superstar Effects : Evidence from the Rollout of Television

Koenig, Felix - 2022

natural experiment in scale-related technological change. The resulting inequality changes are consistent with superstar …

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Differences in Job De-Routinization in OECD Countries : Evidence from PIAAC

de la Rica, Sara - 2016

-routinization of job contents. Third, we test whether higher degrees of technology adoption are associated to higher wage inequality … technology on wage inequality, our results indicate that although differences in ICT adoption explain an important and … significant association between wage inequality and technology adoption …

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Does the Adoption of Complex Software Impact Employment Composition and the Skill Content of Occupations? Evidence from Chilean Firms

Almeida, Rita - 2017

A major concern with the rapid spread of technology is that it replaces some jobs, displacing workers. However, technology may raise firm productivity, generating more jobs. The paper contributes to this debate by exploiting a novel panel data set for Chilean firms in all sectors between 2007...

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The Effect of Access to Information and Communication Technology on Household Labor Income : Evidence from One Laptop Per Child in Uruguay

Marandino, Joaquin - 2015

This paper examines the effect of the One Laptop Per Child program in Uruguay [Plan Ceibal] on household labor income. Since 2007, the Uruguayan government has delivered one laptop to every child and every teacher in public primary schools. This program has considerably increased access to...

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Inequality and Specialization : The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs in the United States

Autor, David H. - 2015

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Bhalotra, Sonia - 2018

change, occupational sorting, wage inequality and polarization …

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