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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Labour Market Polarisation, Job Tasks and Monopsony Power
Bachmann, Ronald; Demir, Gökay; Frings, Hanna - 2021
Using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic monopsony model, we examine to what extent workers performing different job tasks are exposed to different degrees of monopsony power, and whether these differences in monopsony power have changed over the last 30 years. We find that workers...
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Using Behavioral Economic Experiments at a Large Motor Carrier : The Context and Design of the Truckers and Turnover Project
Burks, Stephen V. - 2015
The Truckers and Turnover Project is a statistical case study of a single firm and its employees which matches proprietary personnel and operational data to new data collected by the researchers to create a two-year panel study of a large subset of new hires. The project's most distinctive...
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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...
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Average Wage, Qualification of the Workforce and Export Performance in German Enterprises : Evidence from Kombifid Data
Wagner, Joachim - 2012
variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …
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Globalization, Structural Change and Innovation in Emerging Economies : The Impact on Employment and Skills
Vivarelli, Marco - 2018
This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
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Test Scores, Noncognitive Skills and Economic Growth
Balart, Pau - 2015
Many studies have found a strong association between economic outcomes of nations and their performance on international cognitive tests. This association is often interpreted as evidence for the importance of cognitive skills for economic growth. However, noncognitive skills, such as motivation...
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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills
Borissov, Kirill - 2016
We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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The Importance of Skill Measurement for Growth Accounting
Nilsen, Øivind Anti - 2010
In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
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