Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 28,916
Cover Image
The firm size distribution across countries and skill-biased change in entrepreneurial technology
Poschke, Markus - 2014
: the entrepreneurship rate and the fraction of small firms fall with per capita income across countries, while average firm … newly introduces the last three to the literature. It then proposes a simple theory of skill-biased change in …'s potential payoffs in working and in entrepreneurship. If some firms consistently benefit more from technological progress than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250019
Cover Image
Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
Cover Image
Harnessing the opportunities of inclusive technologies in a global economy
Beliz, Gustavo; Basco, Ana Inés; Azevedo, Belisario de - 2018
In this paper the authors propose that G20 countries endorse and facilitate the creation of a T20 digital platform for "Accelerating the Jobs of the Future". In a world driven by a new wave of technological change, the platform would revalue the role of think tanks, research institutions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908136
Cover Image
Harnessing the opportunities of inclusive technologies in a global economy
Beliz, Gustavo; Basco, Ana Inés; Azevedo, Belisario de - 2019
In this paper the authors propose that G20 countries endorse and facilitate the creation of a T20 digital platform for “Accelerating the Jobs of the Future”. In a world driven by a new wave of technological change, the platform would revalue the role of think tanks, research institutions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955420
Cover Image
Dinner Table Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K. - 2018
We document three new facts about entrepreneurship. First, a majority of male entrepreneurs start a firm in the same or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928500
Cover Image
The global distribution of routine and non-routine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239274
Cover Image
The global distribution of routine and nonroutine work
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020
Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the countryspecific routine task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228044
Cover Image
Technology, skills, and globalization : explaining international differences in routine and nonroutine work using survey data
Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Hardy, Wojciech; Du, Yang - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006117
Cover Image
Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142
Cover Image
Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
The shift away from manual and routine cognitive work, and towards non-routine cognitive work is a key feature of labor markets. There is no evidence, however, if the relative importance of various tasks differs between workers performing seemingly similar jobs in different countries. We develop...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867377