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To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use a framework and empirical decomposition of observed changes in the total wage bill in the economy developed by Acemoglu and Restrepo (2019). The decomposition is derived from a...
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demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the … slower growth of employment over the last three decades is accounted for by an acceleration in the displacement effect …
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increase in OAS technology usages reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and increases wages for … occupations to become higher skill and hence less at risk from further automation. In addition, we find that total employment and …We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings …
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We evaluate the influence on the skill premium of the task content of jobs by exploiting the text data from online job …), and routine cognitive tasks. Our results show weak evidence of the influence on the skill premium of our task …
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choice in the tradition of Roy (1951). In our model, changes in relative occupational skill prices proxy for changes in … relative demand for occupational labor services. Our analysis yields three main findings. First, although changes in skill … prices have quantitatively important effects on employment shares and mean wages, they play essentially no role in accounting …
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employment service, I identify the most common skill requirements mentioned in job descriptions. Because employers in Austria are …This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is … legally required to state the minimum remuneration for advertised positions, it is possible to relate the skill content of …
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We document the skill content of college majors as perceived by employers and expressed in the near universe of U … majors, whereas other skills are more specialized. In turn, general majors - Business and General Engineering - have skill … profiles similar to all majors; Nursing and Education are specialized. These cross-major differences in skill profiles explain …
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supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for … more exposed regions experienced stronger ICT adoption, accompanied by considerably stronger growth in relative employment … to these long-run, technology-driven changes in their economic opportunities. …
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. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the …
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