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Skill composition and regional entrepreneurship : a comparative study between Germany and Portugal
Mendonça, Joana; Grimpe, Christoph - 2009
The question whether agglomeration externalities arise either from specialization or diversification of economic … the specialization of skills has a positive effect on the level on new firm entry in all sectors. In contrast to this, our … results for Germany reveal exactly the opposite effect. These results suggest that both specialization and diversity theories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888000
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Job Matching Efficiency in Skilled Regions - Evidence on the Microeconomic Foundations of Human Capital Externalities
Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2011
Inspired by the literature on the role of local career networks for the quality of labor market matches we investigate whether human capital externalities arise from a higher job matching efficiency in skilled regions. Using two samples of highly qualified workers in Germany we find that an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128829
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German robots : the impact of industrial robots on workers
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens; … - 2017
We study the impact of rising robot exposure on the careers of individual manufacturing workers, and the equilibrium impact across industries and local labor markets in Germany. We find no evidence that robots cause total job losses, but they do affect the composition of aggregate employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725680
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The role of innovation in employment growth, skill demand, and wages : evidence from Ecuador
Rochina Barrachina, María E.; Rodríguez-Moreno, Jorge … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-30
This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of innovation were considered-namely, product, process,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014234275
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Diversity of experience and labor productivity in creative industries
Kekezi, Orsa - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-21
This paper studies how the previous experience among workers relates to the labor productivity of the creative industries in Sweden. Effective knowledge transfers are dependent on the cognitive distance among employees. Using longitudinal matched employer-employee data, I measure the portfolio...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591756
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Spillover effects of black teachers on white teachers' racial competency : mixed methods evidence from North Carolina
Gershenson, Seth; Lindsay, Constance A.; Papageorge, … - 2023
The US teaching force remains disproportionately white while the student body grows more diverse. It is therefore important to understand how and under what conditions white teachers learn racial competency. This study applies a mixed-methods approach to investigate the hypothesis that Black...
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Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
(specialization in global value chains), structural change, and supply of skills, and decompose their role in accounting for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006117
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Are specific skills an obstacle to labor market adjustment?
Lamo, Ana; Messina, Julián; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010
. Quantitative exercises suggest that the over-specialization of the labor force in Poland led to much higher and persistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153578
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Task Specialization and Cognitive Skills : Evidence from PIAAC and IALS
Martínez-Matute, Marta - 2020
We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries participating in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competences (PIAAC) and from 13 countries that also participate in the International Adult Literacy Study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826725
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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap : evidence from worker-level data
Storm, Eduard - 2021
occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. This enhanced degree of task specialization …
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