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The labour market impacts of leaving education when unemployment is high : evidence from Britain
Taylor, Mark P. - 2013
We estimate the effects of initial labour market entry conditions on a range of subsequent job outcomes for men and women who entered the British labour market between 1991 and 2009, using data from the British Household Panel Survey and its successor Understanding Society. We find that the...
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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of...
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Technology and Labor Displacement : Evidence from Linking Patents with Worker-Level Data
Kogan, Leonid; Papanikolaou, Dimitris; Schmidt, Lawrence; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages
Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2015
complexity and its training requirements. When two tasks are equally complex, firms will automate the task that requires more … training and in which labor is hence more expensive. Under quite general conditions this leads to job polarization, a decline …. The model makes novel predictions regarding occupational training requirements, which we find to be consistent with US …
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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm : the Polish transition experience
De Crombrugghe, Alain Leon; De Walque, Gregory - 2011
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Wage and employment effects of a wage norm : the Polish transition experience
De Crombrugghe, Alain Leon; De Walque, Gregory - 2011
Most transition countries used tax-supported wage norms in the early 1990's, as a part of their market liberalization programs. This paper analyses how a firm-level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre-set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labor demand curve perceived by the...
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Poland's Labour Market Adjustment in Times of Economic Slowdown – WDN3 Survey Results
Strzelecki, Pawel - 2016
This paper presents the results of a survey carried out in Poland in 2014 among nearly 1500 firms, within the framework of the ECB's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN). It aims at assessing the impact of the global economic and financial crisis on firms' business activity, as well as analysing the way...
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Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate...
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How has labor demand been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from job ads in Mexico
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Esquivel, Gerardo; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-42
There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment : Lessons from the French Experience
L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2021
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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