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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis
Schneider, Dorothee - 2010
that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single countries are analyzed with an industry panel … since 1995. -- ICT ; Skill ; Income Inequality ; Labor Demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953009
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Supply and Demand, Allocation and Wage Inequality : An International Comparison
Dupuy, Arnaud; Borghans, Lex - 2021
In this paper, we develop an allocation model of workers differentiated by their field of study to test whether international differences in the wage structure can be explained by differences in labor demand and supply in each country. The model explicitly takes into account the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319671
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Workers' skill level and information technology : evidence from German service firms
Falk, Martin; Seim, Katja - 1999
Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442453
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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...
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Distorted Innovation : Does the Market Get the Direction of Technology Right?
Acemoglu, Daron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In the presence of markup differences, externalities and other social considerations, the equilibrium direction of innovation can be systematically distorted. This paper builds a simple model of endogenous technology, which generalizes existing comparative static results and characterizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226119
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Has technology hurt less skilled workers? : an econometric survey of the effects of technical change on the structure of pay and jobs
Chennells, Lucy; Van Reenen, John - 1999
There is a growing concern in advanced countries that the position of less skilled workers has deteriorated, either through their ability to secure jobs and/or their ability to earn a decent wage. Some have linked this decline to modern computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537983
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Do firms demand temporary workers when they face workload fluctuation? : cross-country firm-level evidence on the conditioning effect of employment protection
Dräger, Vanessa; Marx, Paul - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629715
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The labor market performance of first-generation immigrants : evidence for Switzerland
Golder, Stefan M. - 1999
This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as an indicator and natives as the reference group for the analysis. The analysis proceeds in two steps. In a first step, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475909
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Do Firms Demand Temporary Workers When They Face Workload Fluctuation? Cross-Country Firm-Level Evidence on the Conditioning Effect of Employment Protection
Dräger, Vanessa - 2012
Although the negative economic effects of temporary employment are widely discussed, cross-country research on firms' demand for temporary employment is rare. National studies indicate that workload fluctuations are one major motive for firms to employ temporary workers. By studying a novel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099406
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Labor Specialization and the Impact of International Trade on the Skill Premium
Madanizadeh, Seyed Ali - 2017
three decades: "What factors explain the worldwide increase in skill premiums following international trade integration and … more skill-intensive entities. I further demonstrate how these internal organizational changes directly affect aggregate … skill intensity and the skill premium in a general equilibrium setting. Lastly, I calibrate this model to Mexican data to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972121