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. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …
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growth and convergence of an economy towards the world technology frontier. -- Growth ; skills ; innovation ; selection …
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The diffusion of digital technologies and their impact on employment and skills is investigated inthis article …. We first investigate their effect on total employment finding that job creation in industriesis supported by high digital …
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This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching unemployment in a disaggregated economy. We simultaneously endogenise both the direction and pace of technological change as well as the unemployment rates. We show that an increase in...
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We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased …) skills. These results support the complementarity view of the coexistence of student employment and low-skilled employment …
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1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and … controlling for age/experience, race and education, jobs which involve automated or routine tasks and those without any face …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An … investigation into the changes in employment shares reveals that female workers suffer less of a decline in routine cognitive jobs …
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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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The rapid productivity gains achieved by technological innovations in the 20th century have slowed in recent decades. This has come at a time of increased market concentration. In this paper, I explore how dominant companies in concentrated sectors have siphoned off inventors that might have...
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