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larger establishments perform more non-routine analytical tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover, workers … in larger establishments rely more on the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks …
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I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks and worker skills … types. Occupations arise endogenously as bundles of tasks optimally assigned to a type of worker. The model allows us to …. Tasks are distributed continuously in the skill space, whereas workers have a discrete distribution with a finite number of …
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: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first … proportion of union members are clearly associated with long-term changes in the remuneration of occupations. …
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This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male … analyze labor market trends. The biggest increase in employment shares is for nonroutine cognitive occupations for both female … occupations for most of the period of analysis. However, the analysis finds no consistent, significant changes in wages based on …
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larger firms perform more non-routine analytical and interpersonal tasks, even within narrowly defined occupations. Moreover …, workers in larger firms rely more on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) to perform these tasks. We …
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
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Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
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social skills tasks, workers enjoy greater wage progression with tenure and also accrue higher returns in firms with a higher …
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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with few formal educational qualifications. We show that lower educated workers in occupations where social skills are more … important experience steeper wage growth with tenure, and also higher early exit rates, than equivalent workers in occupations … where social skills are less important. Moreover, the return to tenure in occupations where social skills are important is …
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