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Building on the task-based approach of technological change, this paper discusses the interaction between occupational polarization (e.g. a gradual increase of native employment in the lowest and highest-paying jobs) and employment opportunities of immigrant workers. Using high quality...
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This paper uses the task-based view of technological change to study employment and wage polarization at the level of local labor markets in Germany between 1979 and 2007. In order to directly relate technological change to subsequent employment trends, we exploit variation in the regional task...
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rates of qualification and skills mismatches would boost both wages and productivity. With the possibility of more workers … past and acquire skills that are more highly valued in the labour market. To maintain valuable skills, workers of all ages … the most out of skills will also depend on allocating skills to their most productive uses. Reducing New Zealand’s high …
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This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labor market opportunities by decreasing returns to parental background. We find that in Germany during the 1990s, computerization improved the access to technologyadopting occupations for workers with low-educated parents,...
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determinant of income and labor market outcomes in the arts. Arguably, the IT revolution has changed the demand for certain skills …
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Drawing on newly available panel data, this paper presents an empirical analysis of the wage effects of changing job tasks, assessed for individuals at their workplace. I am therefore able to exploit within-occupation within-individual variation, over time, to study wage returns to cognitive,...
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We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … job-title level they increase the skills required of job applicants. Furthermore, firms change the task content of such … increase in OAS technology usages reduces employment in OAS occupations by about 1 percentage point and increases wages for …
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return to cognitive skill. Sorting across occupations responded to changes in the returns to skills. Workers with an …
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return to cognitive skill. Sorting across occupations responded to changes in the returns to skills. Workers with an …
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-neutral technology on hours worked, productivity and wages in a novel structural vector error correction framework identified by non …, productivity and wages. Structural inequality shocks also have a negative impact on hours worked, but additionally reduce …
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