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ICT-alan rakennemuutos: Mihin ex-nokialaiset päätyivät?
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Kuosmanen, Natalia; Pajarinen, Mika - 2021
This study examines the employment status of workers who left Nokia during the period 2009-2014. The results reveal that the workers were quite successful in finding employment. According to the latest available data, more than three-quarters of these individuals found a new job, while the share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012939214
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ICT-induced technological progress and employment: a happy marriage or a dangerous liaison? : a literature review
Sabadash, Anna - 2013
This report surveys the literature on the employment impact of ICT. Two competing views - compensation and substitution … evidence, a consensus regarding the employment effect of ICT remains elusive. While there are many empirical studies on … technological progress in general, few are based on specific ICT indicators. Our review devotes equal space to each mainstream …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979469
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ICT-alan rakennemuutos : mihin ex-nokialaiset päätyivät?
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Kuosmanen, Natalia; Pajarinen, Mika - 2021
This study examines the employment status of workers who left Nokia during the period 2009-2014. The results reveal that the workers were quite successful in finding employment. According to the latest available data, more than three-quarters of these individuals found a new job, while the share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012664803
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Occupational Choice and the E¤ects of Skill Supply on Relative Wages
Kurtzon, Gregory - Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of Labor - 2013
It is shown that an economy where agents with one dimensional skill choose among occupations as intermediate … complementary inputs with di¤erent learning costs has an equilibrium hierarchy from the lowest cost/skill/wage occupations to the … highest which agents will cascade along away from the skill level of new entrants. This can explain why di …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665494
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Recession in the Skilled Sector and Implications for Informal Wage
Marjit, Sugata; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Kar, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Global recession is likely to hit the skilled sector or the so-called white goods, white collared sector in a typical developing economy. In this paper we try to analyze the impact of such an event on informal wage as the vast majority of the workforce in the developing world is employed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559291
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Relative earnings and the demand for unskilled labor in West German manufacturing
Steiner, Viktor; Wagner, Kersten - 1997
of intensified international competition and skill-biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440891
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Do firms pay bonuses to protect jobs?
Reizer, Balázs - 2016
A large share of workers receives bonus payments besides their base wage. The benefits of flexible wage components in remuneration are twofold: they can incentivize workers and make it easier to adjust wages downward in response to negative shocks. Using data on bonus payments of Hungarian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537473
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The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States
Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000
We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...
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Flexible work arrangements in low wage jobs: evidence from job vacancy data
Adams, Abi; Balgova, Maria; Qian, Matthias - 2020
In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290719
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Can the labor demand curve explain job polarization?
Peichl, Andreas; Popp, Martin - 2022
a skill- and a novel task-based division of the workforce, our elasticity estimates show that supply shifts from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255962