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Measuring the Routine and Non-Routine Task Content of 427 Four-Digit ISCO-08 Occupations
Mihaylov, Emil; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2019
This paper develops new measures of the task content of occupations that are based on the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08). Using a detailed set of 3,264 occupation-specific tasks, we construct five measures of non-routine analytic, non-routine interactive,...
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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis
Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024
The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...
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Green Technology Adoption and Skill Reallocation
den Nijs, Sacha; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023
of firms in a labour market with search frictions and two-sided heterogeneity. We find that the presence of skill … higher emission intensity in production compared to a counterfactual with no labour market frictions. The induced effect is … economy leads to larger labour market transitions. More specialised new technologies further reinforce these effects, and so …
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Acceleration of Technology Adoption withing Firms
Koellinger, Philipp; Schade, Christian - 2008
This paper studies the diffusion of multiple, related technologies among firms. The results suggest an endogenous acceleration mechanism of technology adoption: The more advanced a firm is in using a particular set of technologies, the more likely it is to adopt additional, related technologies....
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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation
Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - 2014
This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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Firm Formation with Complementarities: The Role of the Entrepreneur
Roessler, Christian; Koellinger, Philipp - 2009
We model entrepreneurship and the emergence of firms as a result of simultaneous bidding for labor services among heterogeneousagents. Unique to our approach is that occupational choices, jobmatching and organizational forms are determined simultaneously, sothat the opportunity costs of...
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Labour Market Effects of International Fragmentation of Production; Evidence from a Survey and Case Studies in the Dutch Industry
Berghuis, Ebel; den Butter, Frank A.G. - 2013
production costs outweigh the additional transaction costs associated with coordinating the tasks. The labour market consequences … tasks are outsourced. This paper discusses the labour market effects of outsourcing in the Netherlands using a survey …
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Individual Team Productivity - A Conceptual Approach
Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten; Prinz, Joachim - 2013
Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...
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Individual Team Productivity - A Conceptual Approach
Müller, Julia; Upmann, Thorsten; Prinz, Joachim - 2013
Teams, in both firms and in sports, jointly produce a product. While a fixed task is assigned to each member of a team, the individual team productivity of a worker or player is difficult to conceptualize. This is particularly true, if this concept is aimed to be operable on observable data. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151870
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How do Entrepreneurial Bosses influence their Employees' Future Entrepreneurship Choices?
Rocha, Vera; van Praag, Mirjam - 2016
We adopt a process-based approach to investigate the influence of entrepreneurial bosses on the two main decisions of employees towards becoming entrepreneurs: exit from the current firm and entry into entrepreneurship. In other words, we study the push and pull mechanisms possibly underlying...
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