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Microeconometric analysis of individual and institutional determinants of education and occupational choice
Obergruber, Natalie - 2018
This study analyses which individual and institutional factors (causally) influence individuals in their educational career and in their choice for an occupation. Chapter 2 explores consequences of parental separation for cognitive skill development of children. In the year before parental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918288
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Human Capital Accumulation, Education and Earnings Inequality
Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper attempts to add to the understanding of the causes for the differing recent developments in inequality in OECD countries. The similarity of shocks and technological changes affecting these countries suggests that interactions of these shocks and country-specific institutions are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320926
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Effective human capital and long-run economic growth
Kim, Young-joon - In: Korea and the world economy 14 (2013) 3, pp. 475-515
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Skill versus inequality
Özalp, Hüseyin - In: Panoeconomicus 71 (2024) 4, pp. 605-627
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Structural change and wage inequality : evidence from German micro data
Henze, Philipp - 2014
This paper measures the impact of sectoral composition, international trade and technological progress on the rising wage gap in Germany. I find a positive effect of the increasing importance of services on the rising wage gap in Germany that is comparable to the effects of international trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340389
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IT capital, job content and educational attainment
Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2003
skill requirements, the analysis shows that IT capital substitutes repetitive manual and repetitive cognitive skills …, whereas it complements analytical and interactive skills. These changes in the within occupational task mix result in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448176
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Technical Change, Heterogeneity in Skill Demand, and Employment Polarization
Kim, Sung min - 2013
We explore how the rapid adoption of computer-related assets affects the recent polarization of employment in the U.S. labor market, which is inconsistent with the skill-biased technological change hypothesis. Similar to Goos and Manning (2007), we show that the job polarization could be...
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The shelf life of incumbent workers during accelerating technological change : evidence from a training regulation reform
Janssen, Simon; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2018
In periods of accelerating technological change, incumbent workers must continuously update their skills to remain …-to-date skills. We investigate how incumbent workers' careers respond to the increasing labor supply of graduates with more … technologically advanced IT skills during a period of accelerating technological change. We identify a supply shock of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796386
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Employment Effects of Skill Biased Technological Change When Benefits are Linked to Per-Capita Income
Weiss, Matthias - 2009
This paper studies the employment effects of technological change when benefits are endogenous. If the (i) level of welfare aid depends on the general income level in the economy and (ii) wages for unskilled workers cannot fall below the level of welfare aid, there is a link between the wage for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014210824
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Automation, robots and wage inequality in Germany : a decomposition analysis
Brall, Franziska; Schmid, Ramona - 2020
We analyze how and through which channels wage inequality is affected by the rise in automation and robotization in the manufacturing sector in Germany from 1996 to 2017. Combining rich linked employer-employee data accounting for a variety of different individual, firm and industry...
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