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Determinants of Automation Risk in the EU Labour Market: A Skills-Needs Approach
Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2018
labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and skill needs in jobs, collected by the European skills and jobs … skewed towards routine jobs with low demand for transversal and social skills. The risk of job displacement by machines is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931794
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262541
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Separations, sorting and cyclical unemployment
Mueller, Andreas I. - 2012
This paper establishes a new fact about the compositional changes in the pool of unemployed over the U.S. business cycle and evaluates a number of theories that can potentially explain it. Using micro-data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1962-2011, it documents that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289903
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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function: The Power of Words
Marinescu, Ioana E.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2015
from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job … titles explain more than 90% of the wage variance. Job titles also explain more than 80% of the across-vacancies variance in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288200
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No Longer Qualified? Changes in the Supply and Demand for Skills within Occupations
Modestino, Alicia Sasser; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar - 2023
with an increased demand for software skills. We also find evidence that upskilling contributed to reduced matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469809
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Are skills a constraint on firms? New evidence from Russia
Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - 2012
to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously increasing in skills. These skill gaps are associated with significant …The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the … labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291469
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Are Skills a Constraint on Firms? New Evidence from Russia
Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
to fill vacancies and search time is unambiguously increasing in skills. These skill gaps are associated with significant …The paper uses a unique survey of recruitment firms to look at how Russian firms perceive the supply of skills in the … labour market and how well those skills match to their demand for labour. Firms invest significant amounts of time in search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240239
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Overeducation and Skill Endowments The Role of School Achievement and Vocational Training Quality
Büchel, Felix; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2001
Thurow?s job-competition model implies that overeducation is contingent upon the differing skill endowments of employees. As yet, only rudimentary evidence has been furnished to confirm this relationship. In the present paper, we test the theory in a more sophisticated manner, by means of a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262544
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The jack-of-all-trades entrepreneur: innate talent or acquired skill?
Silva, Olmo - 2006
Cross-sectional tests of the Jack-of-All-Trades theory of entrepreneurship invariably conclude that accumulation of balanced skill-mix across different fields of expertise stimulates entrepreneurship. Yet, none of these considers individual unobservable characteristics which may simultaneously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267719
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268182