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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers: Industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to … investigating the influence of ICT in 14 countries, I concentrate on the analysis in 23 separate industries. The results I find show …
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Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era: 1993-2011
Jacoby, Hanan G.; Dasgupta, Basab - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 8, pp. 1-26
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework is applied at the level of the Indian state. While real wages have risen across India...
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The Statutory Minimum Wage in Germany and the Labor Demand Elasticities of Low-Skilled Workers: A Regression Discontinuity Approach with Establishment Panel Data
Kölling, Arnd - 2020
This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16–19-year-old workers. We...
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268008
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
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Comparisons and contrasts of the impact of the crisis on euro area labour markets
Anderton, Robert; Jarvis, Valerie; Szörfi, Béla; … - 2015
The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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Computerization of white collar jobs
Dillender, Marcus; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2019
jobs, broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill office functions. We aggregate these patterns to the … college experience and college graduates. These losses are in part driven by high-skill office occupations. These results are … occupations to become higher skill and hence less at risk from further automation. In addition, we find that total employment and …
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ICT-induced Technological Progress and Employment: a Happy Marriage or a Dangerous Liaison? A Literature Review
Sabadash, Anna - 2013
This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution … evidence, a consensus regarding the employment effect of ICT remains elusive. While there are many empirical studies on … technological progress in general, few are based on specific ICT indicators. Our review devotes equal space to each mainstream …
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