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Wages, skills, and skill-biased technical change : the canonical model revisited
Bowlus, Audra J.; Lochner, Lance; Robinson, Chris; … - 2021
The canonical supply-demand model of the wage returns to skill has been extremely influential; however, it has faced several important challenges. Several studies show that the standard approach sometimes produces theoretically wrong-signed elasticities of substitution, yields counterintuitive...
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs demanding non-routine higher skills (professionals and technicians …
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Skills-displacing technological change and its impact on jobs: challenging technological alarmism?
McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Redmond, Paul - 2019
We use data from a new international dataset - the European Skills and Jobs Survey - to create a unique measure of … skills-displacing technological change (SDT), defined as technological change that may render workers' skills obsolete. We … contribution of automation to the task content and skills complexity of the jobs of incumbent workers. Despite the recent focus on …
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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics : evidence from a half-century analysis
Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020
, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …
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Global divergence in the de-routinization of jobs
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2023
implications. Investment in skills, technology use, and participation in global value chains are key factors for work content and …
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Skills and human capital for the low-carbon transition in developing and emerging economies
Vona, Francesco - 2023
, it derives some policy recommendations to solve the coordination failure between investments in skills, particularly … technical skills, and green technology adoption. …
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Technological change, skill demand, and wage inequality in Indonesia
Lee, Jong-Wha; Wie, Dainn - 2013
This paper examines the empirical implications of technological changes for skill demand and wage inequality in Indonesia. According to the National Labor Force Survey of Indonesia, the share of educated workers and wage skill premium increased significantly over 2003-2009 for overall industry...
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The workforce composition of young firms and product innovation : complementarities in the skills of founders and their early employees
Müller, Bettina; Murmann, Martin - 2016
We investigate the extent to which complementarities between technical and business skills of founders and employees … complementarities between technical and business skills within the group of founders, but that there are significant complementarities … between technically trained founders and employees who have business skills. This suggests that the innovation potential of …
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The impact of new technologies on the demand for heterogenous labour : empirical evidence from the German business-related services sector
Kaiser, Ulrich - 1998
The impact of technology on the demand for heterogeneous labor is controversely discussed throughout the literature. New technology which is said to favor high skilled labor and to substitute low skilled labor is often considered as the main reason for the decline in relative demand for low...
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The dynamics of skills : technology and business cycles
Cirillo, Valeria; Pianta, Mario; Nascia, Leopoldo - 2015
(2007-2011) in order to assess the impact of cycles on employment and skill dynamics, and their determinants. Skills are …
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