We examine the effects of endogenous offshoring on cost-efficiency, wages and unemployment in a task-assignment model …

This paper analyses the correlation between employment duration, unemployment duration and general skill accumulation … in a search equilibrium. I show how the level of general skills and the duration of employment are positively correlated …, and both variables are negatively correlated with the duration of unemployment spells. With search frictions, general …

Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the …

This paper analyses the correlation between employment duration, unemployment duration and general skill accumulation … in a search equilibrium. I show how the level of general skills and the duration of employment are positively correlated …, and both variables are negatively correlated with the duration of unemployment spells. With search frictions, general …

-depreciating hard skills, the role of lifelong learning is primarily as a hedge against unemployment risks rather than a boost to wages … occupations with more hard skills versus more soft skills. To do so, we draw on representative job advertisement data that contain …

labour market outcomes. Using relevant data on tasks and skill needs in jobs, collected by the European skills and jobs … skewed towards routine jobs with low demand for transversal and social skills. The risk of job displacement by machines is …

education and an economy. The steps help to detect cross-sectoral skills, originating in a given education path, and to connect …