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The impact of the great recession on employment polarization in Spain
Anghel, Brindusa; de la Rica, Sara; Lacuesta, Aitor - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 2/3, pp. 143-171
This article analyzes changes in the occupational employment share in Spain for the period 1997 - 2012 and the way … contributed to explain the polarization process in Spain during the years of expansion (1997 - 2007) but it is a minor factor …
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Adult training in the digital age
Bode, Eckhardt; Gold, Robert - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-36, pp. 1-14
Digital technologies will both create new jobs and replace existing ones. To cope with increasing labor market dynamics in the digital age, workers will have to become more mobile across jobs, occupations, and industries. The relative importance of their job-specific skills will decrease while...
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The future of work: How G20 countries can leverage digital-industrial innovations into stronger high-quality jobs growth
Annunziata, Marco; Bourgeois, Hendrik - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-42, pp. 1-23
The wave of digital-industrial innovation which begins to disrupt vast sectors of the global economy has fueled fear of a potential adverse impact on jobs and wages. This paper argues that digitalindustrial innovations make human capital more important than ever and the focus needs to shift to...
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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-15
Immigrants' employment status has worsened during the Great Recession in Spain. How much of this worsening is due to … work as Spanish unemployment rates skyrocketed. In addition, although many immigrants who arrived in Spain between 2000 and …
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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level: Migration policy lessons from Spain
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20
tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or …
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Labor market conditions and self-employment: A Denmark-Spain comparison
Carrasco, Raquel; Ejrnæs, Mette - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-16
Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being … men and women separately using a strictly comparable panel data set. The results indicate that in Spain self … employment, while this pattern is not so clear in Denmark. Specifically, in Spain those individuals in the bottom part of the …
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Job loss by wage level: Lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland
Nolan, Brian; Voitchovsky, Sarah - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-25
This paper explores the incidence of job loss by wage level during the Great Recession, using data for Ireland. Ireland experienced a particularly pronounced decline in employment by international and historical standards, which makes it a valuable case study. Using EU Survey on Income and...
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Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms
Bowlus, Audra J.; Bonenfant, Émilien Gouin; Liu, Huju; … - In: Quantitative Economics 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1447-1491
This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking individual tax filers to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the...
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How do social networks affect labor markets?
Schmutte, Ian - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)
Social networks, or “job-referral” networks, can help make labor markets become more efficient. Outside the firm, they help workers obtain employment after displacement and secure higher-paying jobs. They can also match highly-skilled workers to more productive employment. Inside the firm,...
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Intergenerational income persistence
Blanden, Jo - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
A strong association between incomes across generations—with children from poor families likely to be poor as adults—is frequently considered an indicator of insufficient equality of opportunity. Studies of such “intergenerational persistence,” or lack of intergenerational mobility, are...
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