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We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …
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-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages … occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills. To do so, we draw on representative job advertisement data that contain …
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unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …
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unique pan-European database covering twenty-eight countries for the year 2014, namely the CEDEFOP's European Skills and Jobs … mismatch with skills mismatch into apparent overeducation and genuine overeducation, the results suggest that the highest wage …
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the early 2000s. The work analyzes whether skills and wage movements have been taken place between or within sectors, and …
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We use an extensive,matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employer-size wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...
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We use an extensive, matched employer-employee dataset to analyze the employersize wage relation and its contribution to wage inequality in Germany. Applying models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments, we document that the large firm wage premium, which has risen over 25...
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This research presents evidence on how the impact of industry concentration and unionism affect the Portuguese wage levels. The influence of employer association is also considered. We use sector information - two-digit level disaggregation of "Classificação das Actividades Económicas" -, and...
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Using a mix of household- and employer-based survey data from 46 countries, we provide novel evidence that workers in larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers in larger establishments rely more on the use of...
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This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...
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