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Aggregate employment, job polarization and inequalities : a transatlantic perspective
Albertini, Julien; Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2016
This paper develops a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational choice in a context of structural change. Our objective is to shed light on the way labor market institutions affect aggregate employment, job polarization and inequalities observed in the US and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438027
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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014243686
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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244266
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Polarization or upgrading? : evolution of employment in transitionary Russia
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Kapeljušnikov, R. I. - 2014
This paper discusses the structural change in the Russian employment and explores whether the evolution of employment over 2000-2012 followed the scenario of progressive upgrading in job quality or brought about the polarization of jobs in terms of their quality. Jobs are defined here as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457409
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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs
Bulman, Tim - 2020
Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304424
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688026
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Inequality and specialization : the growth of low-skill service jobs in the United States
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high … accounted for by a single proximate cause - rising employment and wages in low-education, in-person service occupations. We … automation. We find that in labor markets that were initially specialized in routine-intensive occupations, employment and wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884083
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Job polarization and the labor market : a worker flow analysis
Ounnas, Alexandre - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243980
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Casual Jobs and Internal Labour Markets
Green, Colin P.; Leeves, Gareth - 2004
This paper examines the role of casual employment as a route into permanent employment. Using a competing risks framework we compare transitions from casual to permanent employment made within the firm and to other firms. We also examine the wage outcomes and job durations of these two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070360
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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age
Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018
In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790864