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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent

Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022

The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...

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The employment potential of labor intensive industries on India's organized manufacturing

Das, Deb Kusum; Wadhwa, Deepika; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This paper attempts to identify and examine labor intensive industries in the organized manufacturing sector in India in order to understand their employment generation potential. Using the data from the Annual Survey of Industries (Government of India, various issues), the labor intensity for...

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Do labor intensive industries generate employment? : evidence from firm level survey in India

Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - 2009

This study attempts to address the issue of declining labour intensity in India’s organized manufacturing in order to understand the constraints on employment generation in the labour intensive sectors. Using primary survey data covering 252 labour intensive manufacturing-exporting firms...

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Human capital potential of India's future workforce

Mehdi, Ali; Chaudhry, Divya - 2015

realize that our employability crisis (as well as to some degree, inequality in the economic and human development sphere) has … development during formative years. Another neglected area that we have discussed is soft skill development and the role of … development) to reap its demographic dividend in a manner that is commensurate with the demands of a knowledge economy. …

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Who suffers during recessions in Brazil?

Cravo, Túlio; Schimanski, Caroline - 2019

While the relationship between business cycles and employment is a topic of continuing interest, it has received limited attention in the literature focusing on developing countries. This study adds to the literature as it analyzes the heterogeneous correlations of the business cycle with...

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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth

Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019

We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with occupation mobility, human capital accumulation and endogenous assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological innovations. We extend recent quantitative general...

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Inventories, employment and hours

Galeotti, Marzio; Maccini, Louis J.; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2002

The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that integrates inventory and labor decisions. We extend a model of inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs associated with it. In particular, we distinguish...

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Training and search on the job

Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016

The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...

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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age

Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018

In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...

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Inequality of fear and self-quarantine : is there a trade-off between GDP and public health?

Aum, Sangmin; Lee, Sang Yoon; Shin, Yongseok - 2020

We construct a quantitative model of an economy hit by an epidemic. People differ by age and skill, and choose occupations and whether to commute to work or work from home, to maximize their income and minimize their fear of infection. Occupations differ by wage, infection risk, and the...

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