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implications of these patterns, I build a quantitative model of the labor market with endogenous technology and training …
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Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...
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generic skills. Going beyond the technology, I investigate whether organisational changes requiring greater employee … communication skills and self-planning skills. These effects are found to be independent of the effect of computers on generic … skills. -- communication skill ; literacy ; numeracy ; computers ; autonomy …
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finds a strong connection between the rising use of more academic skills and the education level required for entry into the …
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Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of...
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education they receive. School enrollment rates have increased dramatically in developing counties since 1960, but many children … of education and other policies on the quantity and quality of education obtained by children in developing countries …
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This article investigates the role of technology, education and wages in shaping the skill structure of employment … of the overall skill structure. Results document the role that different types of technological change, education, wages …
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Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and … in regional employment within a rich vocational education setting in West Germany during 1979 and 2012. Results confirm … subsequent adoption of computer and information technology and larger decline in routine occupations. Exposure to global imports …
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This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...
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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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