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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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AI adoption and workplace training
Mühlemann, Samuel - 2024
This paper investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in production processes on workplace training practices, using firm-level data from the BIBB establishment panel on training and competence development (2019-2021). The findings reveal that AI adoption reduces the...
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Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement
Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
When workers are displaced from their jobs in mass layoffs or firm closures, they experience lasting adverse labor market consequences. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience when returning to the labor market. Using novel measures of skill...
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The greening of jobs in Germany : first evidence from a text mining based index and employment register data
Janser, Markus - 2018
The transition towards a greener, less carbon-intensive economy leads to a growing demand for green products, services and business processes. In theory, this trend should lead to a greening of jobs, i.e. to an increasing share of environmentally friendly requirements within occupations...
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Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2019
contribution of automation to the task content and skills complexity of the jobs of incumbent workers. Despite the recent focus on … the polarising impact of automation and associated reskilling needs of lower-skilled individuals, our evidence also draws …
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
), and to jobs demanding routine manual and cognitive tasks (services and sales). Changes in occupational earnings have had …
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Automation technologies and employment at risk : the case of Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso; Heffner-Rodríguez, Aldo; Livas, René; … - 2020
Based on the methodology proposed by Frey and Osborne (2017), we use their estimates for the probability of automation … assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the Mexican labor market. We find that almost two thirds of total … employment is at high risk of automation; slightly more than half if we only consider employment in the formal sector. We argue …
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
automation, health care, and energy, and correcting these distortions could have sizable welfare benefits …
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Artificial intelligence, tasks, skills and wages : worker-level evidence from Germany
Engberg, Erik; Koch, Michael; Lodefalk, Magnus; … - 2023
) and automation (robots). Workers in occupations with high AI exposure, perform different activities and face different …
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Computers as stepping stones? : technological change and equality of labor market opportunities
Arntz, Melanie; Lipowski, Cäcilia; Neidhöfer, Guido; … - 2022
This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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