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qualifications required to get the job, and indicators of the autonomy involved in the job. First, for most of our skills indices …Employees and their line managers may have different perceptions of the skills used in jobs. We carried out a survey … aimed at explaining such differences, in respect of verbal, physical, problem-solving and planning skills, the …
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qualifications required to get the job, and indicators of the autonomy involved in the job. First, for most of our skills indices … other gender combinations. -- skills ; qualifications ; workplace autonomy ; gender relations …Employees and their line managers may have different perceptions of the skills used in jobs. We carried out a survey …
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I provide evidence that task use at work by men and women in the same occupations is significantly different. The observed difference can account for the within-occupational gender-wage gap that is prevalent in many developed countries. Using data for thirteen European countries, I find that...
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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We investigate the impact of participation in physical and mental exercise activities on hirability. Besides by comparing both forms of exercising, we innovate against the existing literature by comparing their impact between different types of jobs, where other effects could be expected. To...
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with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that … immigrants' lower returns to social skills, but not to analytical or manual skills. Interestingly, low linguistic proximity …
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This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of skilled and unskilled workers. Due to unionisation, the wage rate in the market for unskilled labour is above the competitive level. For a given skill endowment of the native...
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Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using linked-employer-employee data for Germany and worker fixed effects from a two-way fixed effects model of wages capturing observed and unobserved worker quality, we find that...
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the Occupational Information Network. We partition skills into four groups based on two dimensions of task requirements … unionized jobs have changed to require more non-routine, cognitive skills and for women, less routine/manual skills. Union, non … also relatively more routine skills. We decompose these skill changes into: (1) changes in skills within an occupation, (2 …
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This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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