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Technology, Unemployment, and Efficiency

Acemoglu, Daron - 1998

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Wage Divergence and Unemployment : The Impact of Insider Power and Training Costs

Muysken, Joan; Zwick, Thomas - 2003

The US labour market is characterized by a high skill wage mark-up and low unemployment, while the German labour market … has a low skill wage mark-up and a high, mainly unskilled unemployment rate. This paper adds an innovative labour supply … to an increased relative skill demand which is not matched by the skill supply and therefore mis-match unemployment …

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Skill-Biased Technological Change, Unemployment and Brain Drain

Mayr-Dorn, Karin; Fadinger, Harald - 2019

We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a … function, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce both the relative unemployment rate and the relative emigration rate (brain …

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Routine job dynamics in the Swiss labor market

Gschwendt, Christian - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 158 (2022) 1, pp. 1-21

I investigate the role of labor market flows in the decline of routine employment in Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 using rich individual-level panel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey. Existing research on the labor market effects of digital transformation has identified jobs with a...

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The Labor Market Consequences of Appropriate Technology

de Souza, Gustavo - 2022

Developing countries rely on technology created by developed countries. This paper demonstrates that such reliance increases wage inequality but leads to greater production in developing countries. I study a Brazilian innovation program that taxed the leasing of international technology to...

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Bridging the Technology-Gap in Economic Transition, the J-curve of Growth and Unemployment

Hetze, Pascal - Institut für Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Rostock - 2006

-up in terms of productivity but also a J-curve shape of output growth accompanied by an increase in unemployment on a large … and jobs, the model reproduces the pattern of productivity, growth and unemployment that we find in the CEE countries. …

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Uncertainty and the specificity of human capital

Gervais, Martin; Livshits, Igor; Meh, Césaire - 2007

This paper studies the choice between general and specific human capital. A trade-off arises because general human capital, while less productive, can easily be reallocated across firms. Accordingly, the fraction of individuals with specific human capital depends on the amount of uncertainty in...

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Uncertainty and the specificity of human capital

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Intellectual capital efficiency : evidence from Bangladesh

Rahman, Sheehan; Ahmend, Jashim Uddin - In: Advances in management & applied economics 2 (2012) 2, pp. 109-146

The study investigates associations, first, between a firm's intellectual capital and market value, and second, between a firm's intellectual capital and financial performance in the context of Bangladeshi companies selected from three different industries - banking, textiles, and...

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