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Empirical studies on the impacts of ICT usage in Europe

Falk, Martin; Biagi, Federico - 2015

evidence on the impact of ICT/e-commerce indicators on the skill intensity measured as the share of workers with a university …

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Openness and technological innovation in East Asia : have they increased the demand for skills?

Almeida, Rita - 2009

income countries. Moreover, while the presence in international markets has been skill enhancing for most middle income … countries, this has not been the case for manufacturing firms operating in China and in low-income countries. If international …

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The race between machine and man : implications of technology for growth, factor shares and employment

Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2016

We examine the concerns that new technologies will render labor redundant in a framework in which tasks previously performed by labor can be automated and new versions of existing tasks, in which labor has a comparative advantage, can be created. In a static version where capital is fixed and...

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The greener, the higher : labor demand of automotive firms during the green transformation

Fackler, Thomas; Falck, Oliver; Goldbeck, Moritz; Hans, … - 2024

We investigate differences in labor demand between German automotive firms specializing in green propulsion technology and those with a focus on combustion engines. To this end, we introduce a firm-level labor demand index based on the near-universe of online job postings and firms’ patent...

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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? : a comparison of different data sources and assumptions

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009

Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...

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Trade, technology and skills : evidence from Turkish microdata

Meschi, Elena; Taymaz, Erol; Vivarelli, Marco - 2009

demand for skilled labour in the Turkish manufacturing sector, using firm level data over the period 1980-2001. In a dynamic …. Both at the sectoral and firm level, it emerged that R&D expenditures are positive and significantly related to skill … upgrading. This result supports the skill biased technological change argument in the case of a middle-income country such as …

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The impact of ICT and intangible capital accumulation on labour demand growth and functional income shares

Stehrer, Robert - 2022

This paper investigates whether the diffusion of tangible IT and CT capital and intangible capital asset types has an impact on labour demand growth and the share of labour income in total income at the industry and country level. The econometric analysis is derived from a Cobb-Douglas...

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Industry-level labour demand elasticities across the Eurozone : will there be any gain after the pain of internal devaluation?

Adam, Antonis; Moutos, Thomas - 2014

In this paper we estimate disaggregated labour demand equations using panel data involving observations across time (1970 - 2007) for twenty-three industries across eleven euro area countries. By using the EU KLEMS database, which provides data across countries, we provide industry-by-industry...

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Automation and income inequality in Europe

Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2023

We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a period marked by the rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results...

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Automation and income inequality in Europe

Doorley, Karina; Gromadzki, Jan; Lewandowski, Piotr; … - 2024

We study the effects of robot penetration on household income inequality in 14 European countries between 2006-2018, a period of rapid adoption of industrial robots. Automation reduced relative hourly wages and employment of more exposed demographic groups, similarly to the results for the US....

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