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New technology and emerging occupations : evidence from Asia
Khatiwada, Sameer; Maceda Veloso, Mia Kim - 2019
One of the less well-understood channels through which technology affects labor market outcomes is the creation of new types of work. In this paper, we investigate the emergence of new occupations by comparing various classifications of occupations and predicting probabilities to access them...
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Technology, profits and wages
Coveri, Andrea; Pianta, Mario - 2019
Building on a Post-Keynesian theoretical framework, integrated with an analysis of technology, this article investigates the structural determinants of income distribution. We develop a simultaneous model on wage and profit dynamics identifying as key determinants productivity growth,...
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The heterogeneous labor market impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic
Matias, Guido; Forsythe, Eliza C. - 2020
, they have been substantially larger in lower-paying occupations and industries. Individuals from disadvantaged groups, such …
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The spatial dimension of productivity : connecting the dots across industries, firms and places
Tsvetkova, Alexandra; Ahrend, Rudiger; … - 2020
This working paper offers a synthesis of the current knowledge on the determinants of productivity. It carefully reviews both “spatial” (e.g. agglomerations, infrastructure, geography) and “aspatial” (e.g. human capital, labour regulations, industry-level innovation and dynamism)...
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Work organisation, human capital and innovation strategies : new evidence from firm-level Italian data
Capriati, Michele; Divella, Marialuisa - 2017
By using firm-level data provided by the fourth round of the (Italian) Community Innovation Survey (CIS 2012), this paper explores whether the implementation of specific changes in work organisation within a firm influences its innovation performance, not only directly, but also via reinforcing...
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Growth and structural changes in transition countries : the chicken or the egg?
Olczyk, Magdalena; Kordalska, Aleksandra - 2018
The theoretical analysis of structural changes in the context of economic growth has a long tradition. However, studies which analyze the empirical relationship between these two economic categories are still very rare. In the literature, whether growth causes structural changes or the other way...
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Sorting between and within industries : a testable model of assortative matching
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - 2014
applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive … workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …
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The role of industries in rising inequality
Briskar, Juraj; Di Porto, Edoardo; Rodríguez Mora, … - 2023
inequality. The total variance surged by 10 log points, with 55% occurring between industries, particularly in a few low …-paid service sectors. Workers with low earnings ability showed increased likelihood of working in industries with low average firm …, inequality increased predominantly between industries and concentrated within a small number of sectors. Italy's increase …
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Industry evidence and the vanishing cyclicality of labor productivity
Molnarova, Zuzana - 2020
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Technology, demand, and productivity : what an industry model tells us about business cycles
Molnárová, Zuzana; Reiter, Michael - 2021
In this paper, we study the relative importance of demand and technology shocks in generating business cycle … fluctuations, both at the aggregate level and at the level of individual industries. We construct a New Keynesian DSGE model that …-specific, uncorrelated across industries. The bulk of the aggregate fluctuations, including those in aggregate measured productivity, are …
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