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Skill Shortages and Skill Mismatch in Europe : A Review of the Literature
Brunello, Giorgio - 2019
Labour markets are currently in a phase of cyclical recovery and undergoing structural transformation due to globalisation, demographic trends, advancing digital technologies and automation and changes in labour market institutions. Against this background, businesses increasingly report that...
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Sports and Child Development
Felfe, Christina - 2011
understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra …
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Gender Stereotyping in Sports
Marcén, Miriam - 2020
sources of data going back several decades to investigate how gender stereotypes and parental time investments shape sport … Association, which provides information for every state on the total number of high school participants by gender in each sport … making sport choices in high school. We also identify parental time investments as being an important cultural …
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur; workers self-select the type of skills to supply and firms...
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Over-Education and the Skills of UK Graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2006
During the early Nineties the proportion of UK graduates doubled over a very short period of time. This paper investigates the effect of the expansion on early labour market attainment, focusing on over-education. We define over-education by combining occupation codes and a self-reported measure...
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The Task Content of Occupations
Kramarz, Francis - 2018
This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information about individual workers' tasks from multiple surveys to examine the impact of a twofold rise in...
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Training and Changes in Job Tasks
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
This study investigates the impact of non-formal training on job tasks of workers. The analysis is based on panel data from Germany covering detailed information on tasks performed at work at the level of individual workers. The results indicate that after training workers are more engaged in...
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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure?
Antonczyk, Dirk - 2009
This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...
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Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills : Evidence from PIAAC and IALS
Martínez-Matute, Marta - 2020
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) and from 13 countries that also participate in the International Adult Literacy Study...
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Skills, Tasks, and Complexity
Gersbach, Hans - 2019
We introduce a new task-based framework to describe production. It focuses on the fact that certain tasks are too complex for many workers to perform. In such an environment, the relationship between wages of workers may significantly differ from their relative productivities. The labor market...
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