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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 … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports … smaller as compared to technology. However, when looking at the direction of displacement of routine-workers, regions with …
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The hidden winners of renewable energy promotion : insights into sector-specific wage differentials
Antoni, Manfred; Janser, Markus; Lehmer, Florian - 2014
In light of Germany´s transition approaches towards a sustainable energy system this paper examines differences of employment structure and wage differentials between renewable energy establishments and their sector peers. To do so, we have developed a novel data set by linking company-level...
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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961140
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Does Digitalization Widen Labor Income Inequality?
Huang, Jilei; Sun, Yi; Yang, Liyan - 2023
Many studies have suggested a positive and monotonic relationship between technological progress and wage income inequality since 1980s for industrialized economies. We examine this topic in the context of the Chinese economy where new generation technologies like automation, AI and...
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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia
Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...
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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
recessions). Second, we link SBTC to direct measures of information technology investment expenditures and show that these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599109
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Microeconometric analyses on determinants of individual labour market outcomes
Simon, Lisa - 2019
This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using microeconometric methods. Chapter 1 serves as an introduction. Chapter 2 uses a randomised field experiment among German human resource managers to evaluate which skill signals such as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971651
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? An econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Reenen, John Van - 1999
). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330338
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? : an econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Van Reenen, John - 1999
). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537983
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Artificial intelligence and high-skilled work : evidence from analysts
Grennan, Jillian; Michaely, Roni - 2020
Policymakers fear artificial intelligence (AI) will disrupt labor markets, especially for high-skilled workers. We investigate this concern using novel, task-specific data for security analysts. Exploiting variation in AI's power across stocks, we show analysts with portfolios that are more...
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