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In this report we produce measures of skill mismatch in the domain of problem solving in technology-rich-environments using PIAAC data for the 13 countries of the European Union participating in the programme (plus the US), extending the methodology developed in Pellizzari and Fichen (2013). We...
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/e-commerce activities on industry performance measured as employment and labour productivity growth. The second study presents new empirical …
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separately for firms in manufacturing, services and ICT-producing sectors from seven European countries. We adopted a common … and employment growth. We read this as an indication that ICT use is not reducing employment among ICT using firms. …
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In recent years, there has been a revival of concerns that automation and digitalisation might after all result in a jobless future. The debate has been fuelled by studies for the US and Europe arguing that a substantial share of jobs is at “risk of computerisation”. These studies follow an...
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In this article we study the resilience of the Portuguese labor market, in terms of job flows, employment and wage … the closing of existing firms, to the dramatic decline of total employment and increase of the unemployment rate. We also … channels that may have amplified the employment response to the great recession: the credit channel, the wage rigidity channel …
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This report examines skill trends in 24 OECD countries over the past several decades. The skill measures used include broad occupation groups, country-specific direct measures of skill requirements from international surveys, and direct skill measures from the Occupational Information Network...
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The present paper estimates and decomposes the employment effect of innovation by R&D intensity levels. Our micro …&D investment and firm employment, and to address important econometric issues, which is not possible in the standard estimation … innovation by 1% may increase employment up to 0.7%. The job creation effect of innovation reaches its peak when R&D intensity is …
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between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous … relationship between the R&D-driven innovation and firm employment as well as address important econometric issues, which is not … innovation and employment entails important non-linearities responsible for significant differences in employment response to …
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