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We present novel evidence on the effects of advanced technologies on employment, skill demand, and firm performance …. The main finding is that advanced technologies led to increases in employment and no change in skill composition. Our main … research design focuses on a technology subsidy program in Finland that induced sharp increases in technology investment in …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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skills or produce them. Skill import may result in large-scale migration, which will not be to the liking of the natives …. Skill production will require financial incentives, which will not be to the liking of the ministry of finance. In this … skill "import" policy. …
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-skilled employees, suggesting that as skill levels of employees decrease it becomes equally probable that they work for different …
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the newest employment forecast data to 2020 to present the development patterns of the labour demand in Poland and in the … Lodzkie region. The analysis of data seems to confirm, that shifts in the sectoral and occupational structure of employment … will follow the path consistent with the hypothesis of the skill-biased technical change. This implies growing demand on …
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-skilled employees, suggesting that as skill levels of employees decrease it becomes equally probable that they work for different …
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and understand this finding theoretically, we consider a free trade model with two goods/industries, two skill types, and …
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of occupations together with household survey data on the occupational distribution of employment to provide a risk … 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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reduce imbalances. The first section provides an overview of skill imbalances in the Malaysian labour market and presents new … between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making … high-skill equilibrium and discusses areas of action to improve the conditions that promote the development of a more …
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This article investigates the role of technology, education and wages in shaping the skill structure of employment … (2007-2011) in order to assess the impact of cycles on employment and skill dynamics, and their determinants. Skills are … of the overall skill structure. Results document the role that different types of technological change, education, wages …
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