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Skill Biased Technical Change: Wage Effects from a Panel of Occupational Task Measures
Ross, Matthew - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
change on wages. The narrative describes technological change as allowing for the increased codification of routine tasks … constant measures of occupational task requirements. That approach is unable to explore how wages respond to the time variant …
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The impact on wages of generic competencies, psychological capital, new work practices and digital technologies
Gritti, Paola; Leoni, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali, Economiche e Metodi … - 2013
private sector wages in the Italian economy. It demonstrates ? also considering industry collective bargaining that tends to …
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Employment Polarization and Immigrant Employment Opportunities
Wielandt, Hanna - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2015
Building on the task-based approach of technological change, this paper discusses the interaction between occupational polarization (e.g. a gradual increase of native employment in the lowest and highest-paying jobs) and employment opportunities of immigrant workers. Using high quality...
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological …
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The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Akerman, Anders; Gaarder, Ingvil; Mogstad, Magne - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013
Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700725
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Skill-Biased Demand Shifts and the Wage Collapse in the United States: A Critical Perspective
Howell, David R.; Wieler, Susan S. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 24 (1998) 3, pp. 343-366
The earnings of low-skill workers in the United States have fallen sharply since the late 1970's in both real and relative terms, an experience not shared by other advanced nations. It is widely held that the problem lies in skill-biased technological change: strong shifts in labor demand away...
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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
skills, the assignment of skills to tasks, and the evolution of wages. …
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The Growth of Low Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the U.S. Labor Market
Autor, David; Dorn, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079230
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The Polarization of Employment in German Local Labor Markets
Senftleben-König, Charlotte; Wielandt, Hanna - Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science
This paper analyzes the polarization of employment and wages in Germany between 1979 and 2006, focusing on the role of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189121
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Job Tenure, Wages and Technology: A Reassessment Using Matched Worker-Firm Panel Data
Givord, Pauline; Maurin, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper presents new estimates of the impact of job tenure on wages using a new French matched worker-firm dataset … valid instrumental variable for identifying the impact of job tenure on wages. Our new IV estimate of the return to job … relatively high wage offers tend to change firms more rapidly: they tend to have relatively high wages and low job tenure …
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