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Gill, David; Prowse, Victoria L. - 2021

Success in life increasingly depends on key skills that allow people to thrive in education, the labor market, and their interactions with others. In this paper, we emphasize creativity as a key skill that is essential to open-ended problem solving and resistant to automation. We use rich...

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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words

Marinescu, Ioana E.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2015

How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data … from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job …

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Recent Flattening in the Higher Education Wage Premium: Polarization, Skill Downgrading, or Both?

Valletta, Robert G. - 2016

Wage gaps between workers with a college or graduate degree and those with only a high school degree rose rapidly in the United States during the 1980s. Since then, the rate of growth in these wage gaps has progressively slowed, and though the gaps remain large, they were essentially unchanged...

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Informing Employees in Small and Medium Sized Firms about Training: Results of a Randomized Field Experiment

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Dauth, Christine; Homrighausen, Pia - 2018

We analyze a German labor market program that subsidizes skill-upgrading occupational training for workers employed in small and medium sized enterprises. This WeGebAU program reimburses training costs but take-up has been low. In an experimental setup, we mailed 10,000 brochures to potentially...

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Skills, Workforce Characteristics and Firm-Level Productivity: Evidence from the Matched ABI/Employer Skills Survey

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Haskel, Jonathan - 2005

as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …

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Labor market policy options of the Kurdistan regional government

Heshmati, Almas - 2007

This study is a descriptive analysis of the labor market conditions in Iraqi Federal Kurdistan Region. It explores a number of integrated factors that covariate and determine the level and patterns of the labor market outcomes in the region. In the first step, each of the determinants of...

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Winners and losers: fragmentation, trade and wages revisited

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2004

Our paper investigates the link between outsourcing and wages utilising a large household panel and combining it with … fragmentation has had a marked impact on wages. Distinguishing three skill categories we find evidence that outsourcing reduced the … definitions of outsourcing. Furthermore we find some evidence that high-skilled workers experienced increased wages due to …

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …

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What Skills Pay More? The Changing Demand and Return to Skills for Professional Workers

Josten, Cecily; Krause, Helen; Lordan, Grace; Yeung, Brian - 2024

Technology is disrupting labor markets. We analyze the demand and reward for skills at occupation and state level across two time periods using job postings. First, we use principal components analysis to derive nine skills groups: 'collaborative leader', 'interpersonal & organized', 'big data',...

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Deconstructing Theories of Overeducation in Europe: A Wage Decomposition Approach

McGuinness, Seamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

This paper uses data from the Cedefop European Skills and Jobs (ESJ) survey, a new international dataset of adult workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a rich, previously unavailable, set of factors in the...

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