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. It explicitly addresses the question of what workers newly experience in the richer economy (higher productivity), what … accounting literature, productivity differences in favor of the richer economy, due to differences in TFP and in physical capital …
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), labour demand and migration patterns. The adoption of new technologies might change the demand for labour in various ways … labour demand function. This is followed by an analysis of push and pull factors of bilateral migration that focuses on the …
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This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the hand milking of cows, a task typically performed by women. Combining...
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been uneven across industries and the impact on productivity growth in most firms has been modest so far. …
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and empirical literature analyses the impact of technological progress with respect to changes in regional productivity …
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, we find negative earnings differentials, lower employment rates and higher unemployment for Indigenous populations and … important differences between First Nations, Métis and Inuit people. First Nations people do much worse in terms of earnings and … employment outcomes, while we find evidence that Métis people have worse employment outcomes and negative earnings differentials …
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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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