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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441070
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Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments
Carlsson, Mikael; Messina, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014
curves using a unique data-set of Swedish manufacturing firms. We show that permanent shocks to firm-level demand is a main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460179
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
Method of Moments (GMM-SYS), this paper attempts to establish the nature of manufacturing employment in Ethiopia and the role … labour-augmenting effect, increasing total manufacturing employment. The two-equation dynamic framework implemented to … analyse enterprise-level employment trends by skill level provides some evidence of skill-bias specific to enterprises with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226717
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Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2019
We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062977
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Sectoral value added prices, TFP growth, and the low-skilled wage in high-income countries
Lücke, Matthias - 1999
of low-skill intensive production activities to low-income countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490893
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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
How do firms respond to technological advances that facilitate the automation of tasks? Which tasks will they automate, and what types of worker will be replaced as a result? We present a model that distinguishes between a task's engineering complexity and its training requirements. When two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478513
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians … an equalizing effect, with more substantial gains in favour of lower-skill occupations and also at the top of the skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483436
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
parental backgrounds over this time period. Competing mechanisms, such as skill-specific labor supply shocks and skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202834
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The future of work in developing economies : what can we learn from the South?
Egana del Sol, Pablo - 2020
In recent years, there has been an escalation of concern revolving around the effect that automation will have on the future of work. This anxiety has fueled the public and academic debate, fearing that soon this technology will displace jobs at a large scale. Numerous studies have begun to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171446
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Technological change and labor market integration
Bublitz, Elisabeth; Wyrwich, Michael - 2018 - This version: June 2018
Could the industrialization reduce social inequalities? We use the rise of office employment in the early 20th century as a historical experiment to study the effect of technological change on labor market access for vulnerable groups. In regions with industries that were strongly connected to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872294