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employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …
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Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey, we document the short-term impact of COVID-19 on self-employed individuals in Canada, which we interpret as small business owners. We document an important decrease in business ownership between February 2020 and May 2020 (-14.8 percent for incorporated...
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research confirms increasing employment, hours worked, and small business ownership as provinces began reopening their …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
exposures to industry-level stocks of robots are derived from their initial industry-employment composition. Foreign automation … is found to decrease manufacturing employment through the channel of final goods exports, while it increases employment … unskilled industry workers and increase the ratio of skilled workers. Also, the wage gap between the two groups widens as a …
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-routine tasks. The wage hike of adult workers induced the exit of less efficient plants and decreased female adult employment by 28 …This study examines the impact of a technological change on employment and wages, focusing on the adoption of power … plant level, the power loom adaption increased the employment and wages of adult male workers, who likely conducted …
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This paper investigates the causal effect of job training on wage rates in the presence of firm heterogeneity. When … job training on wage rates across firms with a weighted-average of the contrast in wages between different firms for a … training on wage rates at each firm which leverage information on firm-specific wages. We illustrate our partial identification …
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Using the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED) we show that quantities of creatine measured in 1980 prior to labour market entry affect labour market outcomes over the period 1990-2010. Those with higher levels of creatine (proxied by urine...
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