After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause − rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …

, wages of both skill groups, and unemployment. In contrast to the canonical model with a fixed task allocation, low …-skilled workers may be harmed in terms of either lower wages or higher unemployment depending on the relative task …

Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological … technology by adopting broadband internet. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and provides … examine how it shifts the production technology and changes the productivity and labor outcomes of different types of workers …

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find … employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment underline its relevance. We discuss the measurement of wage …

probability of non-employment or lower earnings growth than unaffected workers. Rather, firms that adopt T&O offer routine workers …

call technology shifters (economic factors). We use several composite technology indices based on appropriate combinations … of the external economic factors which are indicators of different aspects of technology. These technology indices are … specific external economic factors. Furthermore, the technology shifters allow for non-neutral and biased shifts in TC. We also …

where domestic innovation has to be complemented by the role played by international technology transfer. In the second part … of the paper, the focus will be moved to the possible consequences of this road to catching-up in terms of employment and … skills. In particular, the prescriptions by the conventional trade theory will be contrasted with a view taking into account …

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 …