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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333347
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A Balancing Act at Times of Austerity: Matching the Supply and Demand for Skills in the Greek Labour Market
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper provides an evidence-based assessment of the current situation prevailing in the Greek market for skills and jobs. The synthesis of available skills intelligence for Greece, the country most severely affected by the global economic crisis of 2008, is crucial as it is currently faced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884076
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Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?
Dräger, Vanessa - 2014
Gefährdet der demographische Wandel den ökonomischen Wohlstand in Deutschland oder reicht das Arbeitsvolumenangebot aus, um den Arbeitsvolumenbedarf zu decken? In diesem Beitrag wird mittels Wachstumszerlegung der Bedarf für ein fortgeschriebenes BIP-pro-Kopf ermittelt. Dieser wird dem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409400
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Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?
Dräger, Vanessa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Gefährdet der demographische Wandel den ökonomischen Wohlstand in Deutschland oder reicht das Arbeitsvolumenangebot aus, um den Arbeitsvolumenbedarf zu decken? In diesem Beitrag wird mittels Wachstumszerlegung der Bedarf für ein fortgeschriebenes BIP-pro-Kopf ermittelt. Dieser wird dem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959817
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Artificial Intelligence and the Discovery of New Ideas: Is an Economic Growth Explosion Imminent?
Almeida, Derick; Naudé, Wim; Sequeira, Tiago Neves - 2024
Theory predicts that global economic growth will stagnate and even come to an end due to slower and eventually negative growth in population. It has been claimed, however, that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may counter this and even cause an economic growth explosion. In this paper, we critically...
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The Future of Work: Challenges for Job Creation Due to Global Demographic Change and Automation
Abeliansky, Ana; Algur, Eda; Bloom, David E.; Prettner, … - 2020
achievement of plausible target unemployment rates, disaggregated by age and gender. Second, we analyze the job creation needs … differentiated by country income group. Finally, we examine how accelerated automation could affect job creation needs over the … coming decades. Overall, shifting demographics, changing labor force participation rates, reductions in unemployment to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180155
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Digitalization and the Future of Work: Macroeconomic Consequences
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019
developments, some argue that large shares of jobs are “at risk of automation”, spurring public fears of massive job-losses and … technological unemployment. This chapter discusses how new digital technologies might affect the labor market in the near future …. First, the chapter discusses estimates of automation potentials, showing that many estimates are severely upward biased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059158
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Skill Gaps in the Workplace: Measurement, Determinants and Impacts
McGuinness, Seamus; Ortiz, Luis - 2015
Optimal training decisions require employers to have accurate information about their workers' training needs. However, little is known with regard to the key factors determining the accurate transmission of worker training requirements. Using one of the few linked employer-employee surveys in...
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The Relationship Between Establishment Training and the Retention of Older Workers: Evidence from Germany
Berg, Peter B.; Hamman, Mary K.; Piszczek, Matthew; … - 2015
In the coming years, a substantial portion of Germany's workforce will retire, making it difficult for businesses to meet human capital needs. Training older workers may be a successful strategy for managing this demographic transition. This study examines relationships between establishment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401778
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Unreported labour
Barth, Erling; Ognedal, Tone - 2005
Unreported labour by one worker in a firm increases the probability of detection for his fellow workers, not only for himself. The firm takes this external effect into account. As a consequence, unreported work becomes rationed by the firms demand, rather than determined by demand equal supply....
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