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While numerous studies have analyzed the aggregate employment effects of digital technologies, this paper focuses on … the employment development of individual workers exposed to digitalization. We use a unique linked employer-employee data … technologies with similar employees in establishments that do not make such an investment. We find that the employment stability of …
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, work hours, and monthly earnings, while in contrast home-based self-employment increased among wives – both in the network …
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We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to …-manufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …
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always exceeding that in bottom ones. Overall, top occupations have gained over 80% of the employment shares lost by middling … decrease and the distribution of their employment shift towards the bottom of the occupational skill distribution. The increase … since the 1990s. Employment has not polarised for graduates, but has become less concentrated in top occupations, especially …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the labor market in which the elasticity of substitution between male and female labor is allowed to vary depending on the task content of...
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indication of the potential contribution of foreign investors is thus their employment growth. Employees working for, and trained …, employment growth. For a dataset covering four diverse emerging economies, we find that wholly-owned FDI operations have higher … employment growth, while local industry characteristics moderate the growth effect. …
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We present a dynamic model where the probability of outsourcing production is increasing in the firm's expectation of technological change. As the pace of innovations in production technologies increases, the less time the firm has to amortize the sunk costs associated with purchasing and...
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This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology adoption during the most recent technological expansion. We use administrative data and a novel firm survey to distinguish frontier technologies from older technologies. We find...
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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...
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We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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