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The global financial and economic crisis – including two euro area recessions in 2008-2009 and 2011-2013 – has had a heavy impact on euro area labour markets. A notable feature throughout the crisis has been the considerable degree of cross-country heterogeneity of labour market adjustments...
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trade and technology in the mid-1980s. In this paper, we examine the impact of technology on employment and skill demand … required labour per unit of output, technology has not reduced the aggregate employment in the Indian manufacturing sector …
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that the skill-biased technological change hypothesis is rejected if single countries are analyzed with an industry panel …
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occupations to become higher skill and hence less at risk from further automation. In addition, we find that total employment and …We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … jobs, broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill office functions. We aggregate these patterns to the …
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This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
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of the introduction of information and communication technology (ICT) on actual labor demand as well as on employment … multivariate probit models. The empirical results suggest that OC has a positive effect on actual employment growth given output … and factor price changes. Furthermore, we find that organizational change has a positive impact on expected employment for …
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skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
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occupations to become higher skill and hence less at risk from further automation. In addition, we find that total employment and …We investigate the impact of computerization of white-collar jobs on wages and employment. Using online job postings … jobs, broadening them to include tasks associated with higher-skill office functions. We aggregate these patterns to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061487
-based training, as well as its relative intensity. Relying on a job competition mechanism of skill formation, we stress the role of … affected by firm size, capital intensity, skill composition, R&D, investments in new machinery and organizational change …-organizational innovations also affect the intensity of training, both in terms of training costs and in terms of the employment share of …
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the twin suppositions that employers of apprentices are uniformly high contributors to skill formation, and that high … training-related costs risks generally deter their participation. Differences in training behaviour are attributed to high-skill … versus low-skill business strategies that in turn reflect differing product markets and regulatory constraints. Whatever the …
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