New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...

The purpose of this study is to find out whether there is a verifiable correlation between the individuals' employee commitment dimensions (affective, continuance, normative, professional and deliberate) and the personal characteristics of these employees. Our research was carried out among the...

This paper addresses the issue of the presence and the extent of equalizing differences between temporary and permanent workers. The assumption of perfect competition in the labour market is directly questioned and a simple duopsonistic model is developed with the aim of capturing the main...

This paper uses the Austrian Social Security Register (ASSD) to explore what information firms infer from the three common types of displacement: individual layoffs, individuals displaced due to a closure and individuals displaced due to a mass layoff. I bring together two strands of the...