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Sectoral explanations of employment in Europe : the role of services
D'Agostino, Antonello (contributor);  … - 2006
market and by the mismatch between workers' skills and job vacancies. -- services ; sectoral adjustment ; employment share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464502
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Accelerated technological progress : an explanation for wage dispersion and a possible solution to the productivity paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - 2007
Due to scarcity considerations an increase in the supply of college graduates should reduce the premium for this kind of qualification. Therefore it seems quite contradictory that a tremendous educational expansion in the USA is accompanied by rising wage dispersion (overall and between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003470547
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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What do we know about contracting out in the United States? : Evidence from household and establishment surveys
Dey, Matthew S.; Houseman, Susan N.; Polivka, Anne E. - 2009
A variety of evidence points to significant growth in domestic contracting out over the last two decades, yet the phenomenon is not well documented. In this paper, we pull together data from various sources to shed light on the extent of and trends in domestic outsourcing, the occupations in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003921820
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Do women top managers help women advance? : a panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534961
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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US
Winters, John V. - 2012
employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009627341
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Rising work complexity but decreasing returns
Pikos, Anna Katharina; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Work complexity can be an important factor contributing to the observed employment and wage developments. Using German data, we find that it increased substantially between 1986 and 2012. Work complexity was higher for high-educated employees in the past but differences have leveled out in 2012...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457369
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Do women top managers help women advance? : a panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273086
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This job is "getting old" : measuring changes in job opportunities using occupational age structure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David - 2009
.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill … young workers and contract by curtailing such hiring, we posit that growing occupations will get younger while shrinking … younger workers into occupations at the tails of the skill distribution over the subsequent 25 years. Consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003801096
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Research and policy issues in high-skilled international migration : a perspective with data from the United States
Regets, Mark C. - 2001
Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403829