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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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Artificial Intelligence for public use

Lodefalk, Magnus; Engberg, Erik; Lidskog, Rolf; Tang, Aili - 2025

case. Our findings indicate that advances in AI development and uptake could significantly alleviate projected labour … potential, substantial investments in technological infrastructure, human capital development, regulatory clarity, and robust …

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Labour productivity growth in Malta : a sectoral decomposition analysis

Montebello, Roberta; Darmanin, Jude - 2021

This paper computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years since 2000, in the context of significant structural...

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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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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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Labor market and macroeconomic dynamics in Latin America amid COVID : the role of digital adoption policies

Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Nuguer, Victoria - 2022

We study how policies that facilitate firm digital adoption shape the labor market and economic recovery from COVID-19 in a search and matching framework with firm entry and exit where salaried firms can adopt digital technologies and the labor market and firm structure embodies key features of...

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AI unboxed and jobs : a novel measure and firm-level evidence from three countries

Engberg, Erik; Görg, Holger; Lodefalk, Magnus; Javed, … - 2023

We unbox developments in artificial intelligence (AI) to estimate how exposure to these developments affect firm-level labour demand, using detailed register data from Denmark, Portugal and Sweden over two decades. Based on data on AI capabilities and occupational work content, We develop and...

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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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