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The "Task Approach" to Labor Markets: An Overview
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
An emerging literature argues that changes in the allocation of workplace "tasks" between capital and labor, and between domestic and foreign workers, has altered the structure of labor demand in industrialized countries and fostered employment polarization – that is, rising employment in the...
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A DEMAND-SUPPLY ANALYSIS OF THE SPANISH EDUCATION WAGE PREMIUM
HIDALGO, MANUEL A. - In: Revista de Economia Aplicada 18 (2010) 3, pp. 57-78
This paper estimates education demand for Spain in order to analyze whether variations of the education wage premium between the 1980s and 1990s can be explained within the framework of a supply and demand model. The evidence reveals a stable pattern of growth in the demand for education...
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Los determinantes de la desigualdad en los ingresos laborales: El rol de las nuevas tecnologías y la apertura comercial.
Acosta, Pablo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2001
Este trabajo tiene por objetivo el indagar acerca de las causas que originaron cambios en la distribución de los ingresos laborales en Argentina a lo largo de la década del ’90. Numerosos trabajos para otros países parecen confirmar la tesis de que las nuevas tecnologías (o simplemente,...
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Directed Technological Change: A Knowledge-Based Model
Pan, Shiyuan; Zou, Heng-fu; Li, Tailong - China Economics and Management Academy, Central … - 2010
We develop a knowledge-based growth model to address the issues of directed technological change, wage inequality and … developing country. Thus, international trade may lead to skill-replacing technological change and decrease wage inequality in … the developed country. Wage inequality, however, increases in the developing countries since the degree of skill bias of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195469
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The Great Reversal in the Demand for Skill and Cognitive Tasks
Beaudry, Paul; Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
What explains the current low rate of employment in the US? While there has been substantial debate over this question in recent years, we believe that considerable added insight can be derived by focusing on changes in the labor market at the turn of the century. In particular, we argue that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969214
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
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Spatial Wage Inequality and Technological Change
Senftleben-Koenig, Charlotte; Wielandt, Hanna - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2014
During the last decades, wage inequality in Germany has considerably increased both within and across regions. Building … technological change. We present novel evidence that technological change is positively related to intra-regional wage inequality … change can also explain part of the rise in inter-regional wage inequality. …
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and … - 2014
has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941074
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Reassessing the Trends in the Relative Supply of College-Equivalent Workers in the U.S. : A Selection-Correction Approach
Elitas, Zeynep; Ercan, Hakan; Tumen, Semih - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2014
Among better-educated employed men, the fraction of full-time full-year (FTFY) workers is quite high and stable|around 90 percent|over time in the U.S. Among those with lower education levels, however, this fraction is much lower and considerably more volatile, moving within the range of 62{82...
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Globalization, Wage Polarization, and the Unstable Great Ratio
Cozzi, Guido; Impullitti, Giammario - CESifo - 2014
has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948905