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Creators' income situation in the digital age
Cuntz, Alexander - 2018
The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961140
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Education, skill training, and lifelong learning in the era of technological revolution
Kim, Jinyoung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152551
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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2012
Using the specific case of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) project, this paper illustrates the effect the short-term return of highly qualified migrants abroad can have on capacity building in the origin country through...
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Skill Bias Magnified : Intersectoral Linkages and White-Collar Labor Demand in U.S. Manufacturing
Voigtländer, Nico - 2013
This paper presents a novel stylized fact and analyzes its contribution to the skill bias of technical change in U.S. manufacturing. The share of skilled labor embedded in intermediate inputs correlates strongly with the skill share employed in final production. This finding points towards an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222754
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Education, Skill Training, and Lifelong Learning in the Era of Technological Revolution
Park, Cyn-Young; Kim, Jinyoung - 2020
Rapid technological development makes skills depreciate faster than in the past while new technologies generate gaps in workers’ skills and call for the acquisition of proper skills and lifelong learning. Proper skill mixes for future jobs include strong cognitive skills, basic information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014098548
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Technological Change, Labour Demand and Income Distribution in European Union Countries
Perugini, Cristiano; Pompei, Fabrizio - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2008
This paper provides empirical evidence of the link between technological change in different technology intensive sectors and overall income (and not simply earnings) inequality in some EU eastern and western countries. In a first step, skill-biased technological change hypothesis is tested...
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Accelerated Technological Progress - An Explanation for Wage Dispersion and a Possible Solution to the Productivity Paradox
Nikutowski, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
occured simultaneously, is the reduction of the total factor productivity during the emergence of the computerage - the so … called productivity paradox. This contribution offers a simple unified solution to both of these puzzles and explains the … share of individuals who choose a less productive qualification may lead to a transitory slowdown of the productivity growth …
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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
Using the specific case of the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Temporary Return of Qualified Nationals (TRQN) project, this paper illustrates the effect the short-term return of highly qualified migrants abroad can have on capacity building in the origin country through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712238
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
It is clear that in the transition out of the COVID-19 crisis in Colombia there will be great need for formal job creation. One source that has been widely discussed in policy circles is strengthening linkages of Colombian firms with Global Value Chains (GVCs). Another source that has received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201347
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What effects could global value chain and digital infrastructure development policies have on poverty and inequality after COVID-19?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Cuesta, José; Kugler, Maurice; … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-29
It is clear that in the transition out of the COVID-19 crisis in Colombia there will be great need for formal job creation. One source that has been widely discussed in policy circles is strengthening linkages of Colombian firms with Global Value Chains (GVCs). Another source that has received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012816153