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In this paper, we offer a unique firm-level view of the empirical regularities underlying the evolution of the Lithuanian economy over the period of 2000–2014. Employing a novel dataset, we investigate key distributional moments of real and financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in...
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market improved from 2010 to 2014. We find that a 1 percentage point reduction in the local unemployment rate is associated …
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's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent trend among high-skill occupations, but either a temporary or non …
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with an increased demand for software skills. We also find evidence that upskilling contributed to reduced matching …
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better understanding of temporary skills-qualifications mismatch typical for student workers by analysing the preferences of … student vacancies require, on average, fewer skills than non-student positions, there is strong correlation between formal … sophistication of a job vacancy and the required minimum educational level, as well as required skills for both student and non …
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This paper examines the changing nature of occupational labour-market trends in South Africa and the resulting impact on wages. We observe high levels of demand for skilled labour that have intensified a trend already established before 1994. Over the period 2001-12 employment within the primary...
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whether decline in routine jobs and change in demand for skills has shaped evolution of earnings inequality in India. We rule …
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Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the country-specific routine task...
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Studies of the effects of technology and globalization on employment and inequality commonly assume that occupations are identical around the world in the job tasks they require. To relax this assumption, we develop a regression-based methodology to predict the countryspecific routine task...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228044
In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, with workers moving out of agriculture and...
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