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Challenges of Nordic labour markets: A polarization of working life?

Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lundborg, Per; Nilsen, … - 2011

Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in 'middling' occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...

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Immigrant over- and under-education: The role of home country labour market experience

Tani, Massimiliano; Vadean, Florin - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-21

Literature on the immigrant labour market mismatch has not explored the signal provided by the quality of home country work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience in the home country plays a significant role in...

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Transatlantic differences in labour markets changes in wage and non-employment structures in the 1980s and the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2005

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain and rising continental European unemployment have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the unskilled, combined with flexible wages in the Anglo-Saxon...

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Measuring the importance of labor market networks

Hellerstein, Judith K.; McInerney, Melissa; Neumark, David - 2008

We specify and implement a test for the importance of network effects in determining the establishments at which people work, using recently-constructed matched employer-employee data at the establishment level. We explicitly measure the importance of network effects for groups broken out by...

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Inequality and specialization: the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009

After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a...

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Low skill but high volatility?

Buch, Claudia M.; Pierdzioch, Christian - 2009

Globalization may impose a double-burden on low-skilled workers. On the one hand, the relative supply of low-skilled labor increases. This suppresses wages of low-skilled workers and/or increases their unemployment rates. On the other hand, low-skilled workers typically face more limited access...

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Einbindung durch Ausbildung: Beiträge zur Fachtagung 'Zur Situation von Personen mit Geringer Qualifizierung am Österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt' vom 14. Mai 2007 in Wien

Mosberger, Brigitte (contributor); Sturm, René (contributor) - 2008

Arbeitsmarkt hinübergelegt werden soll. Doch können Geringqualifizierte über diesen Teppich einen Arbeitsplatz finden und auch … längerfristig erhalten? Wie müssen Maßnahmen aussehen, die ihnen eine zureichende Partizipation am Arbeitsmarkt ermöglichen? Mit … Qualifizierung am österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt' am 14. Mai 2007 in Wien, die von der Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und …

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

We offer an integrated explanation and empirical analysis of the polarization of U.S. employment and wages between 1980 and 2005, and the concurrent growth of low skill service occupations. We attribute polarization to the interaction between consumer preferences, which favor variety over...

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Machbarkeitsstudie Arbeitsmarktmonitor: Voruntersuchung für ein Projekt zur wissenschaftsgestützten Begleitung der Umsetzung der neuen Arbeitsmarktgesetze (Hartz I bis IV)

Bartelheimer, Perter; Wagner, Alexandra - 2005

Wirtschaft und Arbeit (BMWA) und des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA …

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The measurement and interpretation of vacancy data and the dynamics of the Beveridge-curve: The German case

Franz, Wolfgang; Smolny, Werner - 1993

This paper is devoted t.o an interpretation of both vacancy data and the Beveridgecurve. Officially reported vacancy data are critically reviewed. The theoretical foundation and empirical application of the Beveridge-curve is examined. We find that the Beveridge-curve is everything but a...

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