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Globalization and Wage Premia : Reconciling Facts and Theory
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - 2004
This paper analyzes the effect of globalization on wage premia by studying the interaction between trade costs, firm's location decision and relative demand for labor. It suggests that globalization, through vertical specialization and/or agglomeration, increases inequality in countries with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119153
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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
computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … diffusion of technologies on wages in the cross section which is not robust to endogeneity and fixed effects; (iii) at the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537983
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido - 2014
The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044598
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Returns to ICT skills
Oliver, Falck; Heimisch, Alexandra; Wiederhold, Simon - 2016
How important is mastering information and communication technologies (ICT) in modern labor markets? We present the first evidence on this question, drawing on unique data that provide internationally comparable information on ICT skills in 19 countries. Our identification strategy relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416403
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Victims of progress : economic integration, specialization, and wages for unskilled labor
Francois, Joseph F.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2000
deterioration in the relative wages of unskilled workers.This involves a model of North-Northintegration through either increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303867
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Global Value Chains and Wages : Multi-Country Evidence from Linked Worker-Industry Data
Parteka, Aleksandra - 2018
fragmentation and wages. Exploiting a rich dataset on over 110,000 workers from nine Eastern and Western European countries and the … United States, we study the relationship between individual workers' wages and industry ties into global value chains (GVCs …). We find an inverse (but weak) relationship between the degree of industries' involvement in GVCs and wages. Workers …
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Pay and Race in World Championship Boxing
Chaplin, David - 2010
What does race have to do with it? Nothing, really, when it comes to the purses professional boxers receive in world title bouts. The contracted purses for 32 world title bouts were analyzed using a multivariate regression model with the boxer's purse as the dependent variable and five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144765
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International Differences in Male Wage Inequality : Institutions Versus Market Forces
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 1998
This paper studies the considerably higher level of wage inequality in the United States than in nine other OECD countries. We find that the greater overall U.S. wage dispersion primarily reflects substantially more compression at the bottom of the wage distribution in the other countries. While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014116631
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De-routinization of jobs and polarization of earnings : evidence from 35 countries
Longmuir, Maximilian; Schröder, Carsten; Targa, Matteo - 2020
The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC)...
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