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Whodunnit? Changes in the relative demand for unskilled and skilled labor
Schimmelpfennig, Axel - 1999
relative wage of the skilled. Increasing unemployment results only for a restrictive assumption about labor market rigidities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333017
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit : eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1998
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
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Labor Supply Dynamics, Unemployment and Human Capital Investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
composition of the labor force, between-groups wage inequality and the level of unemployment. The main result is that a labor … labor force, there is higher unemployment among low-experience workers, they do not accumulate enough on-the-job human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320579
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The Jobs Challenge in Poland : Policies to Raise Employment
Burns, Andrew - 2004
inactivity traps inherent in the Polish personal transfer system, while improving the efficiency and targeting of social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445638
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Flexibilität der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur und Lastverteilung der Arbeitslosigkeit: Eine ökonometrische Analyse für Westdeutschland
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang - 1997
Dieser Beitrag nimmt aus theoretischer und ökonometrischer Sicht zu der Kontroverse über die Bedeutung der qualifikatorischen Lohnstruktur zur Erklärung der Beschäftigungsstruktur Stellung. Basierend auf einer Einteilung in drei Qualifikationsgruppen zeigt sich empirisch, dass die Entlohnung...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297568
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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital
Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015
Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392588
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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020
Over the 1948-2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213777
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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 of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk assessment for the threat that automation may pose to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224000
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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405690