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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data

Ziegler, Lennart - 2021

This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment … in Germany increased (unlike in the U.S. and Britain, where it fell). British and German evidence is further backed up … with alternative data sets for these countries. I find evidence for the Krugman hypothesis when Germany is compared to the …

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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2021

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International trade, technical change and wage inequality in the UK economy

Engelmann, Sabine - 2012

This paper examines the joint impact of international trade and technical change on U.K. wages across different skill groups. International trade is measured as changes in product prices and technical change as total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We take account of a multi-sector and...

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Will Skill Mismatches Persist? An Investigation into the Effect of Skill Shortages on Wages in the UK

Morris, David - 2018

This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in the market, using both pseudo panel and individual wage equations over the period 2004-2014. Both sets of results suggest that workers in markets with higher levels of skill...

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Changes in education, wage inequality and working hours over time

Davoine, Thomas; Mankart, Jochen - 2017

The US skill premium and college enrollment have increased substantially over the past few decades. In addition, while low-wage earners worked more than highwage earners in 1970, the opposite was true in 2000. We show that a parsimonious neoclassical model featuring skill-biased technical...

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Qualifikationsunterschiede und die Dynamik der Arbeitsnachfrage

Kohns, Stephan - 2002

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Older workers and working time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013

Contrary to much of the established literature, this paper finds that though many older workers would prefer to reduce their working hours (the overemployed), there is a significant group who would like to work longer hours (the underemployed). And contrary to the assumption that the...

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The productivity slowdown puzzle : technological and non-technological shocks in the labor market

Saltari, Enrico; Travaglini, Giuseppe - In: International economic journal 23 (2009) 4, pp. 483-509

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