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empirical footing: extant studies from the 1970s suggested that occupations at the top of the wage hierarchy are over- and … occupations at the bottom underpaid with respect to their contributions to firm-level added value. This article surveys the …
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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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employment in high skill and low skill occupations relative to middle skilled occupations (i.e., job "polarization"); (4) rapid …
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mixes: low-skill workers in services reallocate into computer complementary occupations to a greater extent than college …
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, math-heavy college majors and highly quantitative occupations. We develop a general equilibrium model with multiple …
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We investigate wage inequality by migrant status across white collar and blue collar occupations in Australia. We use …
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This paper examines the effectiveness of damage control mechanisms to reduce crop losses from agricultural pests. It uses data from a sample of Cole crop (Cauliflower and Cabbage) growing households in the Bhaktapur district of Nepal to study the impact of pesticides on agriculture production.
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A group of 24 small manufacturing firms located in Santiago, Chile, that operate in four different industries was analysed in detail to assess the impact that technology assets (manufacturing equipment, vehicles, computers, etc.) have on the overall productivity of workers and firms. Using a...
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The article deals with a particular rational production function of two factors with constant scale return. It were determined from the compatibility conditions with the axioms of production function all the cases for a such function.
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