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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers: Industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to … investigating the influence of ICT in 14 countries, I concentrate on the analysis in 23 separate industries. The results I find show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270727
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Organizational change, new information and communication technologies and the demand for labor in services
Falk, Martin - 2001
all skill groups except for unskilled labor. New ICT and the share of training expenditures are primary forces behind OC … authority and ICT-enabled organizational changes). This paper analyzes the impact of organizational change as well as the impact … of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446141
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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high … set with respect to the length of time series, set of countries and industries, and information on ICT. Next to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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The assignment of workers to tasks with endogenous supply of skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009727655
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The Assignment of Workers to Tasks with Endogenous Supply of Skills
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2013
distributions generally overlap. The model shows that the impact of any given skill-biased technical change on wage inequality is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083748
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Wage polarization in the context of the Czech Republic
Náplava, Radek - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 22 (2022) 2, pp. 97-115
Existing studies have provided evidence of job polarization in many developed countries. The issue of wage polarization is less obvious: many articles do not address it at all, and some even confuse it with job polarization. At the same time, the significance of the phenomenon of polarization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270460
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Educational Self-Selection, Tasks Assignment and Rising Wage Inequality
Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021
This paper presents a general equilibrium assignment model of workers to tasks with endogenous human capital formation and multidimensionality of skills. The model has 2 key features. First, skills are endogenous and multidimensional. Second, two types of assignment occur, workers self-select...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316714
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Inequality and technological change
Macera, Manuel; Tsujiyama, Hitoshi - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 2, pp. 427-451
. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053136
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261577
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Low-skilled jobs and student jobs : employers' preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015
Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to better understanding of temporary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288524