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Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
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their value-added to team production to identify team skills: a worker's contribution to team production above and beyond … that given by general skills. The identifying assumption is that workers use general skills in both production functions …, but team skills only in team production. Professional men's tennis provides a useful setting to compare solo work (singles …
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This article examines the overall effect of global value chains (GVCs) on labour market outcomes, namely wages and labour demand. The analysis exploits the World Input-Output Database (WIOD, 2016 release) covering 43 countries and 54 sectors from 2000 to 2014. GVC involvement is measured by the...
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The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...
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This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...
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The role of skills and human capital during England's Industrial Revolution is the subject of an old but still ongoing … debate. This paper contributes to the debate by assessing the artisanal skills of watchmakers and watch tool makers in …
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Based on unique data from the second wave of the Cedefop European skills and jobs survey (ESJS2), this study examines … first exploited to construct robust and comprehensive indices of the required skills profile of European jobs. These … demands as opposed to other drivers (including labour market immobility, worker skills gaps, unattractive working conditions …
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