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Technology or Upskilling? Trends in the Task Composition of Jobs in Central and Eastern Europe
Hardy, Wojciech - 2019
In this paper we analyse the changes in the task content of jobs in Central and Eastern European countries between 1998 and 2013. We link the O*NET data on occupational characteristics with EU-LFS, following the approach of Autor, Levy and Murnane (2003), and Acemoglu and Autor (2011). We find...
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The Task Content of Occupations
Kramarz, Francis - 2018
This paper evaluates how an increase in the supply of skilled labor affects task assignment within and between occupations. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we exploit detailed information about individual workers' tasks from multiple surveys to examine the impact of a twofold rise in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906467
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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Shephard, Andrew - 2019
induce mismatch on both extensive (unemployment) and intensive (over-education) margins, with ensuing wage consequences. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866274
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
(specialization in global value chains), structural change, and supply of skills, and decompose their role in accounting for the … variation in RTI across countries. Computer use, better education, and higher literacy skills are related to lower RTI … countries. Differences in technology endowments and in skills' supply matter most for cross-country differences in RTI, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867377
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Technology, Skills, and Globalization : Explaining International Differences in Routine and Nonroutine Work Using Survey Data
Lewandowski, Piotr - 2019
(specialization in global value chains), structural change, and supply of skills, and decompose their role in accounting for the … variation in RTI across countries. Computer use, better education, and higher literacy skills are related to lower RTI … countries. Differences in technology endowments and in skills' supply matter most for cross-country differences in RTI, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870142
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Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005155
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Job Polarization, Skill Mismatch and the Great Recession
Zago, Riccardo - 2020
endogenous mapping between skills and jobs, that I estimate to match solely occupational dynamics during the Great Recession, a …/4 of mismatches is efficient and attenuates polarization and unemployment over the cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012854010
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Occupation Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Böhm, Michael J. - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861303
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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality
Böhm, Michael J. - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861388