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The impact of skill mismatch on earnings losses after job displacement : conference paper
Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank; Wiederhold, Simon - 2013
The long-term earnings losses of displaced workers are substantial. We investigate the role of post-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of displaced workers with information on the task content...
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AI adoption and workplace training
Mühlemann, Samuel - 2024
This paper investigates the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in production processes on workplace training practices, using firm-level data from the BIBB establishment panel on training and competence development (2019-2021). The findings reveal that AI adoption reduces the...
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The greening of jobs in Germany : first evidence from a text mining based index and employment register data
Janser, Markus - 2018
The transition towards a greener, less carbon-intensive economy leads to a growing demand for green products, services and business processes. In theory, this trend should lead to a greening of jobs, i.e. to an increasing share of environmentally friendly requirements within occupations...
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Occupational choice and the dynamics of human capital, inequality and growth
Dvorkin, Maximiliano A.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2019
assignment of workers to tasks to quantitatively assess the aggregate impact of automation and other task-biased technological … occupations. We craft our dynamic Roy model in a production setting where multiple tasks within occupations are assigned to … inequality and lower output as occupation mobility has provided an "escape" for the losers from automation …
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The middle-income trap 2.0 : the increasing role of human capital in the age of automation and implications for developing Asia
Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2020 - Update March 2020
the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing … Asia. In particular, we analyze the impacts of automation, artificial intelligence, and digitalization on the growth …, particularly the upgrading of skills needed with the rapid advance of automation, will be key success factors for overcoming the …
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The decline of routine tasks, education investments, and intergenerational mobility
Bennett, Patrick; Liu, Kai; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2023
decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in …
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Human capital and firm relocation : why footloose firms are a rare breed
Morkute, Gintare - 2015
This paper examines the role that human capital plays in firm's strategic decisions. It focuses on long-distance corporate relocations which present certain trade-offs in terms of human capital and modifies firms' relationship with the labour force. It is assessed to what extent having (an...
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Firm productivity growth and the knowledge of new workers
Kirker, Michael; Sanderson, Lynda - 2022
Linked employer-employee data from New Zealand is used to study the relationship between a firm's productivity growth and its exposure to outside knowledge through the hiring of new workers with previous work experience. The estimated relationship between productivity growth and hiring is...
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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region
Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014
Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...
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An unfulfilled promise? : higher education quality and professional underemployment in Peru
Yamada, Gustavo; Lavado, Pablo; Martínez, Joan J. - 2015
Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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