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on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before … 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary sectors collapsed, employment in the manufacturing sector did … not increase, while employment in the tertiary sectors such as financial services and community services grew. High- and …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An …This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An …This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012255013
We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and … workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly … share the results with firms increases workseekers' employment and earnings. It also aligns their beliefs and search …
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This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution …, de-skilling and possibly a jobless economy. Recent employment trends are often seen as indicative of mismatches between … rapidly changing demand for skills and slow adjustment in the supply. Despite a wealth of theoretical models and empirical …
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This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution …, de-skilling and possibly a jobless economy. Recent employment trends are often seen as indicative of mismatches between … rapidly changing demand for skills and slow adjustment in the supply. Despite a wealth of theoretical models and empirical …
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markets. However, despite a wealth of theoretical speculation and empirical evidence, a consensus regarding the employment … effect of ICT remains elusive. This report provides an overview of current perspectives on the employment impact of ICT. The … employment and ICT. This assessment is needed in order to capture the full complexity of the factors influencing this relation …
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This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution …, de-skilling and possibly a jobless economy. Recent employment trends are often seen as indicative of mismatches between … rapidly changing demand for skills and slow adjustment in the supply. Despite a wealth of theoretical models and empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170079
employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …
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outlines why bullying might affect employment outcomes through differences in skills and traits. Using Bivariate and Heckit … labour force participation, employment rate and hourly wages are negatively affected by bullying. In addition, men … wages. Moreover, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions suggest that labour force participation gaps, employment gaps and hourly wage …
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