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Routinization and employment : evidence for Latin America

Gasparini, Leonardo; Lombardo, Carlo; Brambilla, Irene; … - 2021

We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International...

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Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes : a case study from Turkey

Işık, Enes; Orhangazi, Özgür; Tekgüç, Hasan - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/16, pp. 1-41

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and widespread discrepancies between labor market outcomes of women and of men. We...

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Stop worrying and love the robot : an activity-based approach to assess the impact of robotization on employment dynamics

Caselli, Mauro; Fracasso, Andrea; Scicchitano, Sergio; … - 2021

This work investigates the impact that the change in the exposure to robots had on the Italian local employment dynamics over the period 2011-2018. A novel empirical strategy focusing on a match between occupations' activities and robots' applications at a high level of disaggregation makes it...

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The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland

Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020

Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland...

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The risk of automation in Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - 2020 - This version: January 29, 2020

In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in Argentina as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. In order to do that we combine (i) indicators of potential...

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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....

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The effect of FDI on low and high‑skilled employment and wages in Mexico : a study for the manufacture and service sectors

Saucedo, Eduardo; Ozuna, Teofilo; Zamora, Hector - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/9, pp. 1-15

This study analyzes the effect of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows on the employment and wages of low- and high-skilled employees in the manufacture and service sectors in Mexico. The study implements a quarterly panel dataset covering the 32 Mexican states from 2005 to 2018. The...

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The statutory minimum wage in Germany and the labor demand elasticities of low-skilled workers : a regression discontinuity approach with establishment panel data

Kölling, Arnd - 2020 - This version: October 16th, 2020

This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low …

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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

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Who is afraid of machines?

Blanas, Sotiris; Gancia, Gino Alessandro; Lee, Sang Yoon - 2019

industrial robots, affect the demand for workers of different education, age, and gender. We do so by exploiting differences in … that software and robots reduced the demand for low and medium-skill workers, the young, and women|especially in … manufacturing industries; but raised the demand for high-skill workers, older workers and men|especially in service industries …

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