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Rise of the machines : the effects of labor-saving innovations on jobs and wages ; conference paper

Feng, Andy; Graetz, Georg - 2014 - This version: December 2, 2013

Job polarization the rise in employment shares of high and low skill jobs at the expense of middle skill jobs occurred … middle skill workers who have a comparative advantage in tasks that are most likely to be automated when machine design costs …

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Firing costs : eurosclerosis or eurosuccesses? : paper presented at the HWWA Workshop, August 26-27, 1999, on "Uncertainty and Factor Demands", organized by Michael Funke (Universi...

Chen, Yu-Fu; Snower, Dennis J.; Gylfi Zoega; Funke, Michael - HWWA Workshop on Uncertainty and Factor Demands <1999, …; … - 1999

In this paper we analyse the employment implications of firing restrictions. We find that when a recession is expected and the trend rate of productivity growth is small, a rise in firing costs affects mainly the hiring decision. Thus there is a negative effect on average employment. When, on...

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The wage effects of job polarization : evidence from the allocation of talents ; conference paper

Böhm, Michael - 2014

whereby employment in high-skill and low-skill occupations increased at the expense of employment in middle-skill occupations …. This paper examines the wage effects of job polarization: first, have the relative wages of workers in middle-skill … per unit of effective labor in the middle-skill occupations dropped with polarization? Third, can job polarization explain …

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Cyclicality of job and worker flows : new data and a new set of stylized facts ; conference paper

Bachmann, Ruediger; Bayer, Christian; Seth, Stefan; … - 2013

We study the relationship between cyclical job and worker flows at the plant level using a new data set spanning from 1976-2006. We find that procyclical labor demand explains relatively little of procyclical worker flows. Instead, all plants in the employment growth distribution increase their...

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Structural change and the freight transport labour market : prepared for the Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety Systems, January 5-6, 2017, Washington, DC

Blix, Mårten - Roundtable on Commercial Vehicle On-Board Safety … - 2017

progress has led to the disappearance of many difficult and arduous jobs, many new jobs have been created with higher skill …

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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper

Zaharieva, Anna - 2013

This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...

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The returns to education for opportunity entrepreneurs, necessity entrepreneurs, and paid employees : conference paper

Fossen, Frank M.; Büttner, Tobias - 2013

We assess the relevance of formal education on the productivity of the self-employed and distinguish between opportunity entrepreneurs, who voluntarily pursue a business opportunity, and necessity entrepreneurs, who lack alternative employment options. We expect differences in the returns to...

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Analyzing economic policies that affect supply and demand : a structural model of productivity, labor supply and rationing ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2014

In this paper a labor supply model with demand side rationing is estimated to analyze the economic policies that directly affect incentives to work as well as labor costs. The framework is applied to evaluate the employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany and the impact of employer-...

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Spillover effects in local labor markets : evidence from mass layoffs ; conference paper

Gathmann, Christina; Helm, Ines; Schönberg, Uta - 2014 - First version: March 1, 2014

Governments are often willing to subsidize firms on the verge of bankruptcy. The main economic rationale behind these interventions is that a plant closure would not only harm the workers employed in that plant, but create a domino effect on the regional economy as a whole. Yet, little is still...

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Sharing the burden? : empirical evidence on corporate tax incidence ; conference paper

Dwenger, Nadja; Rattenhuber, Pia; Steiner, Viktor - 2013

This study empirically investigates the direct incidence of the corporate income tax through wage bargaining, using an industry-region level panel data set on all corporations in Germany over the period 1998 to 2006. Our measure of direct incidence for the first time accounts for employment...

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