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The Skill Structure of the Export Wage Premium: Evidence from German Manufacturing
Klein, Michael W; Moser, Christoph; Urban, Dieter M. - 2010
We find a significant export wage premium for higher-skilled workers and a significant export wage discount for lower-skilled workers, using a matched employer-employee data set for German manufacturing firms. Estimates suggest that up to one third of the overall skill premia is associated with...
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Wage Inequality and Firm Growth
Mueller, Holger M; Ouimet, Paige; Simintzi, Elena - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We examine how within-firm skill premia–wage differentials associated with jobs involving different skill requirements–vary both across firms and over time. Our firm-level results mirror patterns found in aggregate wage trends, except that we find them with regard to increases in firm size....
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Rising wage inequality and postgraduate education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2011
computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …
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Job tasks, computer use, and the decreasing part-time pay penalty for women in the UK
Elsayed, Ahmed; Grip, Andries de; Fouarge, Didier - 2014
Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium …
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Computer Use and the U.S. Wage Distribution, 1984-2003
Valletta, Robert G. - 2014
workers, the diffusion of computers has been interpreted as a mechanism for skill-biased technological change and consequent … was offset by falling within-group inequality, suggesting that computers have exerted a quot;levelingquot; rather than a …
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293677
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Rising Wage Inequality and Postgraduate Education
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
computers have massively diffused into workplaces, it turns out that the principal beneficiaries of this computer revolution has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323403
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Computers and the Wage Structure
Handel, Michael - 2001
for less-skilled workers. Krueger's study (1993) showing a wage premium associated with using computers at work is one of … occurred in the early 1980s, which is inconsistent with a primary role for computers. Finally, computer use at work had … into account, computers seem to have had a net equalizing impact in the period Krueger studied. This casts significant …
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The Returns to Computer Use Revisited : Have Pencils Changed the Wage Structure Too?
DiNardo, John E.; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 1997
reflect that higher wage workers use computers on their jobs? We examine this issue with three large cross-sectional surveys …
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Understanding the Technology of Computer Technology Diffusion : Explaining Computer Adoption Patterns and Implications for the Wage Structure
Borghans, Lex; ter Weel, Bas - 2021
We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...
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