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Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side … acknowledging the need to update their knowledge base display a higher productivity vis-à-vis other firms. Second, when it comes to … productivity as compared to other firms. On the contrary, companies characterized by a need in managerial, STEM or humanities …
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I develop an assignment model of occupations with multidimensional heterogeneity in production tasks and worker skills. Tasks are distributed continuously in the skill space, whereas workers have a discrete distribution with a finite number of types. Occupations arise endogenously as bundles of...
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Education provides good health, empowerment and employment to all people in the society. Accordingly, education can make a lifelong difference in individuals' lives. It is proved that, on average, there is a positive relationship between each additional year of schooling and the income of an...
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Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...
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This paper studies wage effects and job mobility as a result of skill mismatch in worker- occupation pairs. I develop a Roy model in which learning on the job induces workers to shift more time towards job-specific activities. Using a short task panel containing data on worker’s time...
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