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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress: A Meta-Study
Terzidis, Nikos; Brakman, Steven; Ortega-Argiles, Raquel - 2019
Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete … and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are … contribution of technological progress and trade in recent labour market developments and allows us to identify the winners and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052825
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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress : A Meta-Study
Terzidis, Nikos - 2019
Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete … and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are … contribution of technological progress and trade in recent labour market developments and allows us to identify the winners and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866562
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Successive technical change and the demand for skill : conference paper
Stijepic, Damir - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete, February 2013
Skill-Biased Technical Change is one of the most prominent explanations for the rise in wage inequality in the United States over the last decades. However, the explanation is challenged for several reasons. In this paper, I propose an alternative type of technical change, where new technologies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340554
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Technological progress, occupational structure, and gender gaps in the German labour market
Bachmann, Ronald; Gonschor, Myrielle - 2024
We analyze if technological progress and the change in the occupational structure have improved women's position in the labour market. We show that women increasingly work in non-routine manual and in interactive occupations. However, the observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely...
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Employment polarization and immigrant employment opportunities
Wielandt, Hanna - 2015
Building on the task-based approach of technological change, this paper discusses the interaction between occupational polarization (e.g. a gradual increase of native employment in the lowest and highest-paying jobs) and employment opportunities of immigrant workers. Using high quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529344
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Data, measurement and initiatives for inclusive digitalization and future of work
Nofal, María B.; Coremberg, Ariel; Sartorio, Luca - 2018
As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011908122
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Automation, offshoring, and the role of public policies
Schmidpeter, Bernhard; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2019
development is associated with increasing re-employment wages and job stability. Taken together, our findings imply a trade off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137059
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Back to the future : changing job profiles in the digital age
Lorenz, Hanno; Stephany, Fabian - 2018
In light of increasingly "smarter" technologies, the future of (human) labour is questioned on a daily basis. A study by Frey and Osborne (2013), one of the most recognised contributions in this domain, estimated that half of the US labour force is highly susceptible to computerisation in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790864
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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis
Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024
The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577919
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Finance and the reallocation of scientific, engineering and mathematical talent
Marin, Giovanni; Vona, Francesco - 2022
The US financial sector has become a magnet for the brightest graduates in the science, technology, engineering and mathematical fields (STEM). We provide quantitative bases for this anecdotal fact for the US, over the period 1980-2019 and with a specific focus on the last decade where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332194