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The economic effects of employment protection : evidence from International Industry-Level Data

Micco, Alejandro (contributor); Pagés, Carmen (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing countries. Implementing a difference-indifferences test lessens the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country regressions. This...

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Workers' views of the impact of trade on jobs

Brown, Clair; Lane, Julia; Sturgeon, Timothy - 2010

Although public policy is influenced by the perception that workers worry about the impact of trade on their jobs, there is little empirical evidence on what shapes such views. This paper uses new data to examine how workers' perceptions of the impact of trade are related to their career paths,...

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Robots, exports and top income inequality : evidence for the U.S.

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022

, the International Federation of Robotics, EU KLEMS, and COMTRADE, we study the causal effect of industrial automation on … for top income fractiles. Therefore, industrial automation fuels income inequality and, particularly, top income …

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Changing Consequences of Job Separation in the United States

Polsky, Daniel - 1999

Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, the author examines the consequences of job loss between the periods 1976-81 and 1986-91. He finds stability in the overall incidence of job separation, but a statistically significant increase in the incidence of involuntary job loss, relative to quits,...

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Automation and Rent Dissipation : Implications for Wages, Inequality, and Productivity

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

--wages above opportunity cost--in some jobs. We show that automation targets high-rent tasks, dissipating rents and amplifying wage …This paper studies the effects of automation in economies with labor market distortions that generate worker rents … losses from automation. It also reduces within-group wage dispersion for exposed groups. Automation-driven rent dissipation …

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The growth of low skill service jobs and the polarization of the US labor market

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2012

consumer preferences, which favor variety over specialization, and the falling cost of automating routine, codifiable job tasks …), and received inflows of skilled labor. -- skill demand ; job tasks ; inequality ; polarization ; technological change …

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Measures, Drivers and Effects of Green Employment : Evidence from US Local Labor Markets, 2006-2014

Vona, Francesco - 2017

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between 2006 and 2014. The main methodological novelty consists of a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals that: 1. the...

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Measures, Drivers and Effects of Green Employment : Evidence from US Local Labor Markets, 2006-2014

Vona, Francesco - 2017

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green...

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Did the Covid-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the Covid-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the Covid-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

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Did the COVID-19 Recession Increase the Demand for Digital Occupations in the United States? Evidence from Employment and Vacancies Data

Soh, Jiaming; Oikonomou, Myrto; Pizzinelli, Carlo; … - 2022

This paper investigates whether the COVID-19 recession led to an increase in demand for digital occupations in the United States. Using O*NET to capture the digital content of occupations, we find that regions that were hit harder by the COVID-19 recession experienced a larger increase in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244425

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