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Koster, Hans R.A.; Ozgen, Ceren - 2021

repetitive and automatable), meaning that jobs cover a larger spectrum of tasks. We then explore how the routine intensity of … jobs affects the urban wage premium. We find that the urban wage premium is higher for workers performing non-routine tasks …, particularly analytic tasks, while it is absent for workers in routine task intensive jobs. These findings also hold within skill …

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Task-biased changes of employment and remuneration: The case of occupations

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2011

Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into good and bad jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this...

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Can a task-based approach explain the recent changes in the German wage structure?

Antonczyk, Dirk; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Leuschner, Ute - 2009

This paper investigates the changes in the German wage structure for full-time working males from 1999 to 2006. Our analysis builds on the task-based approach introduced by Autor et al. (2003), as implemented by Spitz-Oener (2006) for Germany, and also accounts for job complexity. We perform a...

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be …

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City air or city markets: productivity gains in urban areas

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2007

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense areas. Another explanation for this result, however, is that...

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Changes in wage structure in Mexico going beyond the mean: An analysis of differences in distribution, 1987 - 2008

Tello, Claudia; Ramos, Raul; Artís, Manuel - 2012

This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between wage inequality, employment structure, and returns to education in urban areas of Mexico during the past two decades (1987-2008). Applying Melly's (2005) quantile regression based decomposition, we find that changes in wage...

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Why Do Part-Time Workers Earn Less? : The Role of Worker and Job Skills

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2004

The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job characteristics, including occupational skill requirements, account for much of the part-time penalty. Longitudinal analysis indicates that much of the remaining gap reflects...

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Skill-biased technological change in Denmark : a disaggregate perspective

Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2003

In this paper, we provide an industry-level analysis of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) in Denmark over the last two decades. The analysis shows that SBTC has varied considerably across industries, and traditionally large Danish industries have experienced relatively less SBTC. This may...

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Analyzing the extent and influence of occupational licensing on the labor market

Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2011

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...

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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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