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Structure of labour market and unemployment in Sudan
Nour S. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856356
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Demographic, employment, and wage trends in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Naidoo, Karmen; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2015
This paper looks to uncover the growth traps and opportunities for the South African economy, with a focus on underlying labour market dynamics. We explore the potential of South Africa’s demographic dividend. We also consider the structure of the labour market and the growth-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414938
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Automation, Relative Wages, and Time Use Distortions within Households
Costanzo, Claudio - 2023
The adoption of industrial automated technology in the US is associated with a decrease in wages, stronger for men than for women. This paper investigates how this affects households' allocation of time by constructing a measure of labor markets' exposure to industrial robots. Higher exposure is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255758
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The Impact of Health on Wages : Evidence from Europe Before and During the Great Recession
Flores, Manuel - 2015
This paper adds to the empirical literature of health as a potential endogenous explanatory variable in wage equations by addressing problems such as unobserved heterogeneity, sample selection and measurement error (in the health variable) in one comprehensive framework. Moreover, by using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017023
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Public employment redux
Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 1 (2021), pp. 1-32
The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803194
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New technologies, migration and labour market adjustment : an intra-European perspective
Barišić, Antea; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Landesmann, Michael; … - 2024
impact of relative automation gaps across countries. Finally, using the OeNB Euro Survey, we examine determinants of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534524
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Digitalisierung und die Zukunft der Arbeit : makroökonomische Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitslosigkeit und Löhne von morgen
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung - 2018
In der öffentlichen Debatte werden vor dem Hintergrund von Studien zur Automatisierbarkeit von Berufen immer wieder Stimmen laut, dass Industrie 4.0 und Digitalisierung massive Jobverluste nach sich ziehen könnten. Der lange Weg von der Entwicklung neuer Technologien in die betriebliche Praxis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011846443
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Does automation lead to de-industrialization in emerging economies? : evidence from Brazil
Stemmler, Henry - 2019
This paper investigates several channels through which automation affects an emerging economy. Building on a Ricardian …, it is shown that domestic and foreign automation have differential effects on labor markets. Based on this model, the … impact of automation on local labor markets in Brazil are estimated using a shift-share approach. Local labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064139
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Automation and labor demand in European countries : a task-based approach to wage bill decomposition
Lábaj, Martin; Vitáloš, Matej - 2019
To understand the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on European labor demand, we use a … factors of production. Automation, by creating a displacement effect, shifts the task content of production against labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129199
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Artificial intelligence and jobs : evidence from US commuting zones
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2023
the wage distribution. These results are consistent with the view that AI has contributed to the automation of jobs and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383286