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Back to the Future - Changing Job Profiles in the Digital Age

Stephany, Fabian; Lorenz, Hanno - 2019

The uniqueness of human labour is at question in times of smart technologies. The 250 years-old discussion on technological unemployment reawakens. Frey and Osborne (2013) estimate that half of US employment will be automated by algorithms within the next 20 years. Other follow-up studies...

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The polarisation of remote work

Braesemann, Fabian; Stephany, Fabian; Teutloff, Ole; … - 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of remote work with consequences for the global division of work. Remote work could connect labour markets, but it could also increase spatial polarisation. However, our understanding of the geographies of remote work is limited. Specifically, does...

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Towards the Reversal of Poverty and Income Inequality Setbacks Due to COVID-19: The Role of Globalisation and Resource Allocation

Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Armah, Mark Kojo; Asmah, Emmanuel E. - 2021

and income inequality, is hard to find. Motivated by the bleak outlook of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region … analyse the poverty and income inequality effects of globalisation and resource allocation in the region. Using data from the … that: (1) while economic globalisation reduces both poverty and income inequality, social globalisation matters only for …

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A Real-Business-Cycle model with efficiency wages and fiscal policy: the case of Bulgaria

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2016

In this paper we investigate the quantitative importance of efficiency wages in explaining fluctuations in Bulgarian labor markets. This is done by augmenting an otherwise standard real business cycle model a la Long and Plosser (1983) with unobservable workers effort by employers and wage...

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A Real-Business-Cycle model with reciprocity in labor relations and fiscal policy: the case of Bulgaria

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2017

In this paper we introduce reciprocity in labor relations and government sector to investigate how well the real wage rigidity that results out of that arrangement ex- plains business cycle fluctuations in Bulgaria. The reciprocity mechanism described in this paper follows Danthine and Kurmann...

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Search, Rigidities and Unemployment Dynamics

Zaveh, Fakhraldin - 2014

In this paper, I study the sources of cross-country differences in unemployment dynamics. Elsby, Hobijn and Sahin (forthcoming) find that in Anglo-Saxon economies unemployment fluctuations are mainly driven by changes in the outflows out of unemployment, while in continental European and Nordic...

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New Keynesian Phillips Curve Estimation: The Case of Hungary /1981-2006/

Vasilev, Aleksandar - 2015

This paper investigates for the presence of a New Keynesian Phillips (NKPC) curve in Hungary in the period 1981:3-2006:2, following the methodology proposed by Gali and Gertler (1999). They claim that a potential source of inflation may be the sluggish adjustment of real marginal costs to...

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My Wage is Unfair! Just a Feeling or Comparison with Peers?

Schneck, Stefan - 2013

This paper descriptively analyzes the nexus between income comparisons and perceptions of unfair pay. A German household survey reveals that individuals who perceive their wages as unfair earn significantly lower wages than fairly paid individuals with similar characteristics. This suggests that...

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Sources of ethnicity differences in non-cognitive development in children and adolescents

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Connelly, Luke; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2019

In most multi-cultural Anglo-Saxon countries, children of Asian immigrants have higher academic achievement than children of native-born parents. Yet, little is known about their relative non-cognitive performance. This study is the first to compare the non-cognitive skills of children of Asian...

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Oversupply of Labor and Other Peculiarities of Arts Labor Market

Popović, Milenko; Ratković, Kruna - 2013

There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...

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