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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill?favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261607
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Multi-task learning and the reorganization of work: From Tayloristic to holistic organization
Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273105
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The Impact of the Transition and EU Membership on the Returns to Schooling in Europe
Patrinos, Harry A.; Rivera-Olvera, Angelica - 2023
education in 28 transition and 20 non-transition countries in Europe and Central Asia are analyzed using panel data analysis and … difference-in-difference methods to estimate the impact of transition and EU accession. It is found that the transition from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377229
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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change
Peter, Klara Sabirianova - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
This study attempts to explain why the transition to a market economy is skill-biased. It shows unequivocal evidence on … increased skill wage premium and supply of skills in transition economies. It examines whether similar skill–favoring shifts in … employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703457
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262486
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287681
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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - 2014
An increasingly influential technological-discontinuity paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333318
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Age biased technical and organisational change, training and employment prospects of older workers
Behaghel, Luc; Caroli, Eve; Roger, Muriel - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278807
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Skilled labor supply, IT-based technical change and job instability
Behaghel, Luc; Moschion, Julie - 2012
We provide empirical evidence on the impact of IT diffusion on the stability of employment relationships. We document the evolution of different components of job instability over a panel of 348 local labor markets in France, from the mid-1970s to the early 2000s. Although workers in more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289862
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262680