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The global distribution of routine and nonroutine work

Lewandowski, Piotr; Park, Albert; Schotte, Simone - 2020

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...

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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020

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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Globalization, technological change and skills : evidence from Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

affecting employment and skills. The results obtained lend support to a labour-augmenting effect. Moreover, the implemented two …

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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India

Sharma, Shruti - 2019

This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...

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Two and a half million Syrian refugees, skill mix and capital intensity

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2018

We investigate how the rapid increase in the low-skilled labor supply induced by the inflow of 2.5 million Syrian refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the unexpected nature of the refugee inflow, location choice of the...

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The Lemons Problem in a labor market with intrinsic motivation : when higher salaries pay worse workers

Barigozzi, Francesca; Burani, Nadia; Raggi, Davide - 2013

We study the Lemons Problem when workers have private information on both their skills and their intrinsic motivation …

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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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Mismatch unemployment in Austria: the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497132

Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

relationship between the unemployment and the job vacancy rate. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered … because mismatch increased substantially. Looking on the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a … substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for manual routine tasks as well as for the region of Vienna. …

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