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Digital technologies, employment and skills
Reljic, Jelena; Evangelista, Rinaldo; Pianta, Mario - 2019
The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article considering six major European countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) and 42 manufacturing and service industriesover the 2009-2014 period. We...
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Innovation, creative destruction and structural change : firm-level evidence from European Countries
Dachs, Bernhard; Hud, Martin; Köhler, Christian; … - 2016
dynamics. We investigate this reallocation in terms of employment gains and losses from innovation. New employment created by … product innovation may be offset by employment losses in related products, known as 'cannibalisation' or 'business stealing …' effects in the literature, by employment losses from process and organisational innovation and by general productivity …
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2016
A fast-growing literature shows that technological change is replacing labor in routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. This paper is the first to estimate the labor demand effects of routine-replacing technological change (RRTC) for Europe as a whole and at the...
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2018
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the aggregate labor demand and employment effects of routine-replacing technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903802
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Racing with or against the machine? : evidence from Europe
Gregory, Terry; Salomons, Anna; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2019
A fast-growing literature shows that digital technologies are displacing labor from routine tasks, raising concerns that labor is racing against the machine. We develop a task-based framework to estimate the aggregate labor demand and employment effects of routine-replacing technological change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959965
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Are Foreign-Owned Firms Different? Comparison of Employment Volatility and Elasticity of Labour Demand
Meriküll, Jaanika - 2014
This paper analyses differences in employment volatility in foreign-owned and domestic companies using firm-level data from 24 European countries. The presence of foreign-owned companies may lead to higher employment volatility because subsidiaries of multinational companies react more...
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - 2021
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
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Did the Pattern of Aggregate Employment Growth Change in the Euro Area in the Late 1990s?
Mourre, Gilles - 2021
The paper examines whether the pattern of growth in euro area employment seen in the period 1997-2001 differed from that recorded in the past and what could be the reasons for that. First, a standard employment equation is estimated for the euro area as a whole. This shows that the lagged impact...
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Asymmetric wage adjustment and employment in European firms
Marotzke, Petra; Anderton, Bob; Bairrao, Ana; Berson, … - 2017
We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We use a harmonised survey dataset, which covers 25 European countries in the period 2010-2013. These data are particularly useful for this paper given the firm-level information...
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Empirical studies on the impacts of ICT usage in Europe
Falk, Martin; Biagi, Federico - 2015
degree. The third study investigates whether and to what extent ICT/e-commerce activities are enablers of innovation …
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