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results are confirmed by the empirical findings obtained for two-digit US manufacturing industries, which also highlight the …
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manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men|especially in service industries … that software and robots reduced the demand for low and medium-skill workers, the young, and women|especially in …
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long-run job polarization in both Sweden and the US. In particular, the shrinking manufacturing sector, with the subsequent …
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This paper estimates the elasticity of substitution between capital and skill using variation across U.S. counties in … immigration-induced skill-mix changes between 1860 and 1930. We find that capital began as a q-complement for skilled and … parametric production function calibrated to our estimates imply the level of capital-skill complementarity after 1890 likely …
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-intensive and presents high employment generation potential, both in absolute terms and compared to other sectors of manufacturing …
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demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower skill groups throughout the developed world. In this paper, we show … that the skill mix of newly arriving immigrants strongly responded to this shift in the demand for skills. Exploiting the … suggest that immigrants responded to skill-biased changes in economic opportunities. Complementing these findings, we document …
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The debate about the impact of routine-biased technical change on wages revolves around the question whether occupational or overall wage distributions polarized. This paper instead argues that routine task prices should decline compared to abstract and manual task prices. I propose a new...
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through the emergence of markets where each specific skill can be traded s eparately. Our empirical results show that labor is … sorted across establishments on both comparative advantage and absolute ability. Furthermore, wage returns to each skill is … higher in market segments where employers rely more heavily on workers who specialize in that particular skill. Changes over …
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This paper analyzes how interaction effects can be consistently estimated under economically plausible assumptions in linear panel models with a fixed Tdimension. We advocate for a correlated interaction term estimator (CITE) and show that it is consistent under conditions that are not...
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Service Innovation Panel (MIP-S). Factor demand functions are used to analyse the determinants of the Firm-specific skill …
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