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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers: Industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to … investigating the influence of ICT in 14 countries, I concentrate on the analysis in 23 separate industries. The results I find show …
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727655
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On simplifying the structure of labour demand : an analysis of the DOT data
Vijverberg, Wim P. M. (contributor);  … - 2005
We analyse the information in the Dictionary of Occupational Titles to characterize the structure of labour demand. Two dimensions, an intellectual factor and a dexterity factor capture most variation in job requirements. Job complexity in relation to Things correlates highly with the dexterity...
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083748
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Strong Employers and Weak Employees : How Does Employer Concentration Affect Wages?
Benmelech, Efraim - 2019
We analyze the effect of local-level labor market concentration on wages. Using plant-level U.S. Census data over the period 1978–2016, we find that: (1) local-level employer concentration exhibits substantial cross-sectional variation; (2) consistent with labor market monopsony power, there...
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The Trade-off between Unemployment and Wage Inequality Revisited
Bicakova, Alena - 2014
wage rigidity on changes in skill-group labor market outcomes. The results provide evidence in favor of the Krugman …
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison
Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...
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Changing wage structure in India in the post-reform era : 1993-2011
Jacoby, Hanan; Dasgupta, Basab - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 8, pp. 1-26
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework is applied at the level of the Indian state. While real wages have risen across India...
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...
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