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computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by …). We focus on over 70 empirical studies that have used direct measures of technology (rather than associating technology … and measurement. Our survey comes to the following tentative conclusions: (i) there is a strong effect of technology on …
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innovation in employment growth, skills demand, and the payment of higher wages. … examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling ap- proach, four types of …This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to …
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We perform decompositions and regression analyses that test the routinization hypothesis and implied job polarization at the firm level. Prior studies have focused on the aggregate, industry or local levels. Our results for the abstract and routine occupation groups are consistent with the...
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and employment opportunities of low-skilled workers tended to improve until about 1980, but have deteriorated since then …
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change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that …
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change in skill endowments on the wages, employment rates, and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find …We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a …
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implications of these patterns, I build a quantitative model of the labor market with endogenous technology and training …
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development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …
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Increased wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers is a stylized fact, which can be observed in many developed countries. Among the explanations advanced for this phenomenon is the increasing globalization, a skill-biased technical progress, restructuring of the firms, and last but...
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