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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 distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …
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This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293115
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352294
This research documents ethnic employment gaps for labour-market entrants in the Netherlands in the period 2006 …-2016. We compare short-term and long-term differences in employment of Dutch graduates with graduates from Moroccan, Turkish … education, which is a group of graduates with many people from ethnic minorities. We document ethnic employment gaps by using an …
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This research documents employment opportunities of labour-market entrants during the COVID-19 crisis in the … the labour market in the midst of a lockdown. Our estimation results suggest short-term effects of lockdowns on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351781
This paper analyses changes in job opportunities of older workers in the Netherlands in the period 1996-2010. The standard human capital model predicts that, as a result of human capital obsolescence, mobility becomes more costly when workers become older. We measure and interpret how changing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659255
This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074817
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare … employment has been growing by 2 percent in the period 2017-2023, of which 1.8 percent has been due to additional workers finding … employment. Women have experienced the largest increase in employment, while the employment of men on temporary contracts has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045497