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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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The overeducated worker? : the economics of skill utilization
Borghans, Lex (ed.); Grip, Andries de (contributor) - 2000
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Skill development in middle level occupations : the role of apprenticeship training
Lerman, Robert Irving - 2013
Concerns about the polarization of the labor market are widespread. However, countries vary widely in strategies for strengthening jobs at intermediate levels of skill. This paper examines the diversity of approaches to apprenticeship and related training for middle-level occupations. We begin...
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Globalization, Job Tasks and the Demand for Different Occupations
Heyman, Fredrik - 2020
Globalization has increased in recent decades, resulting in structural changes of production and labor demand. This paper examines how the increased global engagement of firms affects the structure of the workforce. We find that the aggregate distribution of occupations in Sweden has become more...
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The Demand for Executive Skills
Hansen, Stephen; Sadun, Raffaella; Ramdas, Tejas; … - 2021
We use a unique corpus of job descriptions for C-suite positions to document skills requirements in top managerial occupations across a large sample of firms. A novel algorithm maps the text of each executive search into six separate skill clusters reflecting cognitive, interpersonal, and...
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Skill Development in Middle Level Occupations: The Role of Apprenticeship Training
Lerman, Robert I. - In: The Oxford handbook of skills and training. 2017
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Der Einfluss von Wirtschaftswachstum und Demographie auf die Arbeitslosigkeit
Walterskirchen, Ewald - In: Steuerungsebenen der Arbeitsmarktpolitik : [proceedings …, (pp. 31-45). 2002
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Is globalization all it is cracked up to be?
Kaplinsky, Raphael - In: Review of international political economy : RIPE 8 (2001) 1, pp. 45-65
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Germany's job miracle in the World Recession-shock-absorbing institutions in the manufacturing sector
Möller, Joachim - In: The economy, crises, and the labor market : can …, (pp. 9-27). 2010
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