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No teens, no tech : how shortages of young workers hinder firm technology investments

Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2024

Firms in developed countries face increasing shortages of young workers. This paper studies the importance of young workers, particularly vocational trainees, for firm technology investments. Leveraging exogenous variation in trainee supply caused by an education reform in Germany in 2001, I...

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Employment polarization in Germany : role of technology, trade and human capital

Consoli, Davide; Roy, Ipsita - 2015

Building on the canonical model of skill-biased technical change to incorporate differential effects of technology and international trade on the skill composition of occupations, the paper employs a task-based approach to analyze structural changes in regional employment within a rich...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

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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Skill-biased technological change, endogenous labor supply, and the skill premium

Knoblach, Michael - 2019

The evolution of the U.S. skill premium over the past century has been characterized by a U-shaped pattern. The previous literature has attributed this observation mainly to the existence of exogenous, unexpected technological shocks or changes in institutional factors. In contrast, this paper...

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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 find that 16 percent of adult workers in the EU are...

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New evidence on the effect of technology on employment and skill demand

Hirvonen, Johannes; Stenhammar, Aapo; Tuhkuri, Joonas - 2022

We present novel evidence on the effects of advanced technologies on employment, skill demand, and firm performance. The main finding is that advanced technologies led to increases in employment and no change in skill composition. Our main research design focuses on a technology subsidy program...

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When workers' skills become unbundled : some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Choné, Philippe; Kramarz, Francis - 2022

This empirical paper analyzes labor market sorting across establishments using Swedish register data on cognitive and non-cognitive abilities. We draw on the theoretical foundations of Chone' and Kramarz (2021), in which workers are endowed with sets of multidimensional skills that need to be...

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No teens, no tech : how shortages of young workers hinder firm technology investments

Lipowski, Cäcilia - 2024

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Green technology adoption and skill reallocation

Nijs, Sacha J. den; Tyros, Stefanos - 2023

The green transition towards a carbon neutral economy constitutes a technological transformation, in which firms need to invest in new, clean technologies. In order to be operated, these new technologies often require a set of technology-specific skills that differ from those that were relevant...

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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

technologically advanced IT skills during a period of accelerating technological change. We identify a supply shock of more … analyze how this supply shock of IT-skilled workers affected the careers of incumbent workers. The results show that even …, incumbents experienced relatively little unemployment during the transition period following the supply shock and on average …

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