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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Labor demand on a tight leash

Bossler, Mario; Popp, Martin - 2023

We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre-match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightness on firms' labor demand by applying novel Bartik instruments to the universe of administrative employment data on...

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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 …

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Potential effects of statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany

Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015

In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay...

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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...

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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 …

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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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