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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data with firm-level information on value added, factor inputs and broadband adoption to answer these questions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013034624
impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita in more … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a … holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced changes in income per capita …
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impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they … 23 percent of the overall decline of manufacturing employment in Germany over the period 1994-2014, roughly 275,000 jobs … verarbeitenden Gewerbe, sowie die Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte in Deutschland. Wir finden keine Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass …
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import liberalization by lowering tariffs that protected labor-intensive industries like textiles. So, the short-run effect … an increase in the demand for skilled labor. In those industries in which the import penetration increased the most, the …
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This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U.S. trade policy that eliminated potential tariff increases on Chinese imports. Industries where the threat of tariff hikes declines the most experience more severe employment...
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traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
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traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350412
traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460938
Using a "fuzzy" regression discontinuity design, we examine the short-run impacts of a vocational training program on self-employment, new business plans, entry into entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial traits using data from the Nepal Employment Fund training program, which funds training...
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