computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that … unemployment rates, are more likely to be self-employed and tend to earn lower wages. These disparities do not appear to be …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

There is a large body of literature on the relationship between innovations and employment at the firm level, with most … paper tries to fill in this gap by looking at three dimensions of the relationship between innovations and employment in … Poland: innovations and job creation, innovations and the skill structure of employment innovations, and wage formation. The …

We analyze the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Contrary to … negative effect in Russia, and they provide some evidence of positive foreign effects on both wages and employment in all four … countries. The negligible employment impact of domestic privatization results from effects on efficiency and scale that are …

This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for … workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the … effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages, which provides a convenient way of re-scaling the wage distribution …

market inequality to help understand the continuing earnings and employment disparities experienced by people with … apply them to examples related to intersectionality, unionisation, contingent work, and employment in times of crisis. Paid … employment is central to people's social and economic wellbeing within liberal market-based economies, making it important to …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …

headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

and other establishments from 1997 to 2001. While theory provides alternative explanations for higher or lower wages in … newly founded firms, we show empirically that start-ups tend to pay lower wages, ceteris paribus. On average, wages in newly …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …