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Skill-based technology adoption: Firm-level evidence from Brazil and India

Harrison, Rupert - 2008

This paper provides the first firm-level econometric evidence on the skill-bias of ICT in developing countries using a unique new dataset of manufacturing firms in Brazil and India. I use detailed information on firms’ adoption of ICT and the educational composition of their workforce to...

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Working from home: Heterogeneous effects on hours worked and wages

Arntz, Melanie; Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco - 2019

Working from home (WfH) has become much more common since the early 2000s. We exploit the German Socio-Economic Panel between 1997 and 2014 to investigate how such a work arrangement affects labour market outcomes and life satisfaction. We find that childless employees work an extra hour per...

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Change Begets Change: Employment Effects of Technological and Non-Technological Innovations - a Comparison across Countries

Leitner, Sandra M.; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - 2011

This paper attempts to shed new light on the effect innovation has on employment. Specifically, it identifies the net employment effects of technological product and process innovations as well as complementary non-technological organizational innovations which have so far mostly been bypassed...

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Digitalization: Labour markets

Chernoff, Alex; Galassi, Gabriela - 2023

In this paper, the authors assess the relationship between digitalization and labour demand and supply, and how this relationship affects wages and income inequality. We also explore implications of recent digitalization trends for the future of work.

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Effects of E-commerce on Local Labor Markets

Bauer, Anahid; Fernández Guerrico, Sofía - 2023

This paper studies the effect of e-commerce on local labor markets. We exploit cross-market variation in e-commerce price advantage stemming from the enactment of the Amazon Tax-state-level legislation that mandates state sales taxes collection to out-of-state online retailers. Introducing...

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How restructuring is changing occupations? Case study evidence from knowledge-intensive, manufacturing and service occupations

Valenduc, Gérard; Vendramin, Patricia; Krings, Bettina; … - 2007

This report is the final deliverable (D11.1) of the workpackage on occupational case studies of the WORKS project (WP11 – Qualitative research – Case studies on changes in work - Impacts on the individual and the household). In this workpackage, 30 occupational case studies were achieved in...

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Why Are Jobs Designed the Way They Are?

Zoghi, Cindy; Levenson, Alec; Gibbs, Michael - 2005

In this paper we study job design. Will an organization plan precisely how the job is to be done ex ante, or ask workers to determine the process as they go? We first model this decision and predict complementarity between these job attributes: multitasking, discretion, skills, and...

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Using online vacancies and web surveys to analyse the labour market: A methodological inquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavý, Miroslav; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-20

This paper discusses methodological issues arising from the use of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. We highlight the advantages and possible disadvantages of using online data and suggest strategies for overcoming selected methodological...

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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...

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Job Tenure in Britain : Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

Mumford, Karen; Smith, Peter N. - 2004

We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us … workplace in which they work. The various individual characteristics are, as a group, found to be essentially uncorrelated with … the workplace effect, however, this is not true for women and non-white employees. We find that the lower tenure …

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