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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes

Simon, Lisa - 2019

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited

Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021

The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...

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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity

Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...

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One-to-one technology and student outcomes

Hull, Marie; Duch, Katherine - 2017

New technologies offer many promises to improve student learning, but efforts to bring them to the classroom often fail to produce improvements to student outcomes. A notable exception to this pattern is one-to-one laptop programs. While early evaluations of these programs have been encouraging,...

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Skill-biased technological change, training, and the college wage premium : a quantitative analysis

Palmer, Thomas - 2024

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...

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Inter-industry labor flows

Neffke, Frank; Otto, Anne; Weyh, Antje - 2016

Labor flows across industries reallocate resources and diffuse knowledge among economic activities. However, surprisingly little is known about the structure of such inter-industry flows. How freely do workers switch jobs among industries? Between which pairs of industries do we observe such...

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Medical Innovation, Human Capital Productivity, and the Cross Section of Stock Returns

Zhou, Tong - 2019

Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a...

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Measuring and Predicting "New Work" in the United States : The Role of Local Factors and Global Shocks

Kim, Gueyon; Merritt, Cassandra; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The evolution of work is of emerging importance to advanced economies' growth. In this study, we develop a new semantic-distance-based algorithm to identify "new work," namely the new types of jobs introduced in the US. We characterize how "new work" relates to task content of jobs and skill...

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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?

Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...

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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany

Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023

This paper documents novel facts on within-occupation task and skill changes over the past two decades in Germany. In a second step, it reveals a distinct relationship between occupational work content and exposure to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations...

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